Performed by the Whitlams, but composed by Tim Hall, who sings and plays 
guitar on the track. 
 
 
Tune your bottom string down to D. 
 
Opening/verse riff: (note measure A & B) 
 
                  let ring|------ 
e------------------------------------ 
b------------------------------------ 
g----0-0---0-0----------------------- 
d---2-----1------4-------------------  A 
a---------------5--4h5p4----4-5-7---- 
d--2-----1-----0----------7---------- 
 
 
------------------------------------- 
------------------------------------- 
----------------0-----0-------------- 
----3-----4----1-1---1-1-------------  B 
---3-3---2-4--------3---------------- 
--3-----4-----1---------------------- 
 
 
Repeat over verse: 
 
He thinks it's best to criticise his own kind 
An animal of greed, best to sew that social seed 
I thought by my thoughts all would come clear to me 
Yeah I can shoot a gun, maybe I should join the army. 
 
 
 
Chorus: 
 
-------------------------------------- 
-------------------------------------- 
----0----0----0-----0----0----0----0-- 
---0-0--0-0--0-0---0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0- 
--2----0----------3----2----0--------- 
------------5--------------------5---- 
 
-------------------------------------------- 
-------------------------------------------- 
----0----0----0-----0----0----0----0-----0-- 
---0-0--0-0--0-0---0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0---0-0- 
--3----2----0----------3----2----------0---- 
------------------5--------------5---------- 
 
 
Is there a quiet place to lie? 
Maybe watch this all go by 
Wonder how can we survive 
Wasting energy, where's the enemy? 
 
 
 
Verse 2: 
 
I'd soldier on and walk the curvy line 
so straight 
But I would fall behind, maybe I am not  
so blinded 
You talk of so much pity that is 
self-related 
Blaming not yourself, said the fault lies  
somewhere else. 
 
 
Chorus: 
 
Repeated when the feeling's high 
I wish it all could just rely 
On the depth of you and I 
Wasting energy, where's the enemy? 
 
 
Bridge: 
Measure A of the intro several times, 
Then Measure B. 
 
Then when Tim is murmuring, noodle around this shape: 
Brackets indicate notes to play with.  
---------- 
---------- 
--0------- 
--2-(0)--- 
--x----(4) 
--2------- 
 
Then finish on the C chord that ends Measure B: 
------ 
------ 
----0- 
---2-- 
--3--- 
------ 
 
And back into another chorus! 
 
Chorus repeats, slows, and finishes the song with the Em chord: 
 
----- 
----- 
--0-- 
--2-- 
--2-- 
--2--