The Knife

Key: A-flat major, Time: 4/4, Tempo: 150


Intro:
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||G#m  ||(x 8 bars)
||Bbm  ||(x 4 bars)
||Cm   ||(x 4 bars)
||Ab   ||(x 4 bars)


Verse 1: (0:34-)
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||Ab                                    ||
  Tell me my life is about to begin.
  Tell me that I am a hero.
  Promise me all of your violent dreams.
  Light up your body with anger.

||Bb                                ||
  Now, in this ugly world,    it is 
  time to destroy all this evil.
  Now, when I give a word, are you 
  ready to fight for your freedom?

||C  F/C  C  G/C || (x 4 bars)
  NOW.____


Chorus: (0:55-)
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|Cm                          |                                |
 Stand up and fight,  for you know we are right.       We must 
 strike at the lies, that have spread like disease through our 
|Cm            |             |                |               |
 minds.______________________

|Cm                          |                              ||
 Soon we'll have power, every soldier will rest,  And we'll 
 spread out our kindness  to  all who our love now de-

|Ab                       |Bb                        ||
 serve;   Some of you are  going to die,_____
|G#m/B                    |C#m                       ||
 martyrs of course to the  freedom that I shall pro-

|Ab5    |     |     |     ||Ab    |     |     |     ||
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[Verse 2] (1:32-)

 I'll give you the names of those you must kill, 
 All must die with their children.
 Carry their heads to the palace of old. 
 Hang them high, let the blood flow.

 Now, in this ugly world, 
 breaking the chains that around us.
 Now, the crusade has begun,
 give us a land fit for heroes.
 NOW.


(Chorus) (1:51-)


Interlude A: {Guitar solo} (2:23-)
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||Ab   || (x 8 bars)
||Bb   || (x 4 bars)

||C  F/C  C/F  G/C || (x 4 bars)

||Cm   || (x 12 bars)


Interlude B: (3:07-) {Tempo: 80, No Drums}
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|C/G           |             |             ||
|D#m7/G# |         |         |G#     |      |
|D#m7/G# |G#m  |C#/G# |D#m/G# |E/G# |F#/G#  |


Interlude C: (3:49-) {Flute solo}
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||G#m   || (x 16 bars)


Bridge: (4:39-)
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|:G#m         |                  :|
  We are only   wanting freedom ? 
  We are only   wanting freedom ?
  We are only   wanting freedom ?
  We are only   wanting freedom ? ("Freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom...")
  We are only   wanting freedom ? ("Things are getting out of control here today")
  We are only   wanting freedom ? ("OK men - fire over their heads!")
  We are only   wanting freedom__
  ___________


Interlude D: (5:21-) {guitar solo, tempo: 98}
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||G#m  Dm#/G# || (x 12 bars)

|G#m/D#  A#m/C# |G#m    A#m/G# |C#m  |D#   |
|G#m/B   A#m    |G#m    A#m/C# |E    |D#   |
|G#m/B   A#m    |G#m    A#m/G# |E    |D#   |
|G#m/B   A#m    |G#m/B  A#m/G# |C#m  |D#   |

|:G#m/B   A#m   |G#m    A#m/G# |C#m  |D#  :| (x 3)

||G#m   || (x 4 bars)


Interlude E: (7:13-)
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||12/8 G#m ||(x 16 bars)
||Bbm      ||(x  4 bars)

||4/4 Cm   ||(x  8 bars)

||C        ||(x 7 bars) 

|C         ||Cm    ||(x 8 bars)
    WE HAVE  WON__


Coda: (8:30-)
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|Ab              |Gb                |
      Some of you are going to die,
|E                       |C#m                      |
 martyrs of course to the freedom that I shall pro-
|Ab      |       ||       |       |       ||
 vide.__

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