Chords for Paolo Nutini – ‘Iron Sky’ Live at Radio New Zealand

_ _ [C] _ _ Hey, well, we've got one more song from you, which is Iron Sky.
Can you tell us what this is about?
_ _ Oh, yeah, this is, it's got a lot of connotations in it, overtones really.
I mean, it was, for
me it was something that was, _ you know, originally [G#] inspired by, you know, watching _ _ Fritz Lang
actually, it was [G] a German impressionist films and it was the movie Metropolis [F#] and that idea
that really, you know, technology is in the air and it is kind of getting denser and denser
and weighing down on us and, you know, kind of just, you know, I think if you look, if
you saw everything in the air, if it all had a colour, I would wonder what it would look
like, you know, I would wonder, would you go out the house?
Using like Wi-Fi and cell phones and_
Just it all, it circulates and, you know, and all coming in and out of our heads.
And
then, you know, as it came on, it was, you know, that idea of the man that used to be
at the checkout or at the ticket counter in the train [G] station or even, you know, in a
lot of places now it's, you know, airports, you fly a lot, you put your bag there and
it used to be somebody that used to take the bag, now it's all just some machine and a
scanner and that and that and the idea of the, you know, the convenience and just like,
you know, the machine, it doesn't really have, [Bm] you know, the machine you can just switch
on and off, it doesn't have rights, it doesn't have opinions, it doesn't have mouths to feed.
But, you know, there's, and we wonder why there's not as many jobs.
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_ _ [E] salvation _ but [Bm]
no one [D] no nobody _ [G] can give you the [E] power _ to [Bm]
rise _ [A] over love and [G] over hate
[D] through [Em] this iron sky that's fast becoming [Bm] our mind and [A] over fear _ and [G] into freedom
[D] _ _ [B] _ _ Lord help me [Bm] for all that life left dripping down the [D] walls of a dream that
cannot [G] breathe [E] in this harsh reality the [Bm] mass confusion spoon fed to the [A] blind
served out to [G] define _ our cold [E]
society from [Bm] which we'll rise _ [A] over love and [G] over hate
through [D] _ [E] this iron [Bm] sky that's fast becoming our mind _ [A] over [D] fear and [G] into [D] freedom
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you just got to hold on [Bm] you just [G] got to hold on
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ you just [G] got to hold on
_ [D] _ _ [Bm] oh _
_ _ [C#] we'll _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ find our [G] place in one world
_ _ [B] _ and make a [Bm] space in one world
_ [A] _ find some [G] peace in this world
_ [E] _ _ _ [Bm] and we'll rise _ [A] over love [D] and over [G] hate _ through this [Bm] iron sky that's fast