2 Minutes To Midnight
Words & Music:
Adrian Smith & Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)
There is a full transcription of this in the November 2005
Guitar World issue.
Am7 D5/A Am7 D5/A Am7 D5/A Am7 D5/A
Kill for gain or shoot to maim. But, we don't need a reason.
Am7 D5/A Am7 D5/A Am7 D5/A
Am7 D5/A
The Golden Goose is on the
loose and never out of season.
Am7 D5/A Am7 D5/A D7sus4 D5 D7sus4 Am7
Blackened pride still burns inside
this shell of bloody treason.
Am7 D5/A Am7 D5/A D7sus4 D5 D7sus4 Am7
Here's my gun for a barrel of
fun for the love of living death.
CHORUS:
Am F/A G Gsus4
The killer's breed or the
demon's seed;
F
Fsus4 Gsus4 G
The glamour, the fortune, the
pain,
Am F/A
G Gsus4
Go to war again, blood is
freedom's stain,
F Fsus4 Esus4 E
But don't you pray for my soul
anymore.
Am7 C5 G5 Dm
F5 G5
2 minutes to midnight, the
hands that threaten doom.
Am7 C5 G5 Dm
F5 G5
2 minutes to midnight to kill
the unborn in the womb.
The blind men shout let the
creatures out, we'll show the unbelievers.
The napalm screams of human
flames of a prime time Belsen feast, yeah.
As the reasons for the carnage
cut their meat and lick the gravy,
We oil the jaws of the war
machine and feed it with our babies.
CHORUS:
The body bags and little rags
of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of
those who remain to put the finger right on you.
As the madmen play on words
and make us all dance to their song,
To the tune of starving
millions to make a better kind of gun.
CHORUS:
G5 A5
F5/C G5/D C5/G D5/A C5/G A5
Midnight---, midnight---,
midnight--- it's all night.
G5 A5 F5/C
G5/D C5/G D5/A C5/G A5
Midnight---, midnight---,
midnight--- it's all night.
Midnight, all night