Artist: Wire
Song: "Outdoor Miner"
Album: Chairs Missing (1978)
Tuning: Standard
[Intro]
Em (x79987)
[Verse]
A C#m
No blind spots in the leopard's eyes
B A
Can only help to jeopardize
C#m B
The lives of lambs, the shepherd cries
A
Ahhhh...
A C#m
An afterlife for a silverfish
B A
Eternal dust less ticklish
C#m B
Than the clean room, a houseguest's
A
wish
[Chorus]
Em A
He lies on his side, is he trying to hide?
G B
In fact it's the earth, which he's known since birth
Em A
He lies on his side, is he trying to hide?
G B B
In fact it's the earth, which he's known since birth
[Verse]
A C#m
Face worker, a serpentine miner
B A
A roof falls, an underliner
C#m B A
Of leaf structure, the egg timer
[Chorus]
Em A
He lies on his side, is he trying to hide?
G B
In fact it's the earth, which he's known since birth
Em A
He lies on his side, is he trying to hide?
G B
In fact it's the earth, which he's known since birth
[Interlude]
A C#m B A C#m B A
A C#m B A C#m B A
[Chorus]
Em A
He lies on his side, is he trying to hide?
G B
In fact it's the earth, which he's known since birth
Em A
He lies on his side, is he trying to hide?
G B
In fact it's the earth, which he's known since birth
Em A
He lies on his side, is he trying to hide?
G B
In fact it's the earth, which he's known since birth
Em A
He lies on his side, is he trying to hide?
G B
In fact it's the earth, which he's known since birth