The Idol Brooker-Reid (a few fill ins and upbeats are missing)
chorus
Fm Fm/Eb Bb7/D Db Gb
Oh the idol,
Ebm Ebm/Db Ab7/C Ab Db Eb
Oh the idol
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verse
Fm Fm/Eb Bb7/D Db Gb
They knew the monster's every trick
Ebm Gb/Dd Ab7/C
They knew his secrets every stitch
bass:AbCDbEb Ab
Fm Fm/Eb Bb7/D Db Gb
All of it had been a game
Ebm Gb/Db Ab7/C Bb Db
Nothing but a charlatan
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break
Eb Db Ab Eb
Perhaps there was a chance of coming through
Eb Db Ab Eb
It even seemed that he might think it too
Gm Cm Eb/Bb F (bass:fga) Bb (bass Ab
But he could see no point in diving in
G7 Cm Cm/Bb F F/A Bb
But he knew that he would neither sink nor swim
chorus2
Ab Cm/G Fm Fm/C Fm/D Eb Eb4-3-2-1-6-1
And so they found he'd nothing left to say
Ab Cm/G Fm Fm/C Fm/D Eb
Just another idol turned to clay
chorus
Db Eb
verse
It seemed to them he must know what to do
They knew that only he could pull them through
They thought that he would make a plan
He'd work it out, he'd understand
break
Like drowning men they clutched at every straw
They knew that he had saved them all before
But he could see no point in diving in
He knew that he would neither sink nor swim
chorus2
chorus
Transcribed by Leif Thiborg 061019
