D                G
It was midnight, midnight at noon
D               G
Everyone talked in rhyme
D                G
Everyone saw the big clock ticking
D            F      G
Nobody knew, nobody knew the time
D                  G
Elegant debutantes smiled
D                   G
Everyone fought for dimes
D                       F
Newspapers screamed for blood
Em                 Bm
It was the best of times


[Chorus]
Am                                     F
Every place around the world it seemed the same
Am                            F
Can't hear the rhythm for the drums
Am                 F
Everybody wants to look the other way
Am                    F
When something wicked this way comes
Gm                   C
Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree
Am
Sometimes I stare
D
Sometimes it's me


[Verse 2]
D                 G
Everyone told the truth
D                      G
All that we heard were lies
D                             G
A pope claimed that he'd been wrong in the past
Em                B
This was a big surprise
D              G
Everyone fell in love
D                 G
A cardinal's wife was jailed
D                      F     G
The government saved a dying planet
Em                 Bm
When popular icons failed


[Chorus]
Am                                     F
Every place around the world it seemed the same
Am                            F
Can't hear the rhythm for the drums
Am                 F
Everybody wants to look the other way
Am                    F
When something wicked this way comes


[Outro]
Gm                   C
Sometimes they tie a thief to the tree
Am                 Dm
Sometimes I stare, sometimes it's me
Am                 Dm
Sometimes I stare, sometimes it's me