The Eve Of The War Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
No one would have believed
In the last years of the nineteenth century
That human affairs were being watched
from the timeless worlds of space
No one could have dreamed
that we were being scrutinized
As someone with a microscope studies
creatures that swarm and multiply
in a drop of water
Few men even considered the possibility
of life on other planets
And yet, across the gulf of space
Minds immeasurably superior to ours
Regarded this Earth with envious eyes
And slowly and surely,
they drew their plans against us
[Am][E][E][Am]

[Interlude 1]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[F][Em][Dm][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]

[Interlude 2]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[F][Em][Dm][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]

[Solo 1]
[G][G][G][Am]
[Am][Am][G][G]
[G][Am][Am][Am]
[G][Am][F][Am]
[Am][G][Am][F][G]

[Interlude 3]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[F][Em][Dm][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]

[Solo 2]
[G][G][G][Am]
[Am][Am][G][G]
[G][Am][Am][Am]
[G][Am][F][Am]
[Am][G][Am][F][G]

[Interlude 4]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[Am][Am][Am]

[Verse 1]
[G][G][G]
[Am][Am][Am]
At [G]midnight, on the 12th of August
A huge mass of luminous gas erupted
from Mars and sped [Am]towards Earth
Across two hundred million miles of void,
invisibly hurtling [G]towards us
Came the first of the missiles
that were to bring so much calamity to Earth
As I [Am]watched, there was another jet of gas
It was another mis[Am]sile, starting on its way

[Interlude 5]
[G][Am][F][Am]
[Am][G][Am][F][G]

[Verse 2]
[Am][E][E][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]
And that's how it was
for the next ten [F]nights[Em]
A flare, spurting out from Mars
[Dm]Bright [Am]green, drawing a green mist behind it,
a beauti[Am]ful but [E]somehow disturbing sight
[E]Ogilvy, the ast[Am]ronomer,
assured me we were in no danger
[Am]He was convi[E]nced there could be
no living thing on that re[E]mote,[Am]
forbidding planet

[Chorus 1]
"The [G]chances of anything [Am]coming from Mars
are a [F]million to one" he [Am]said
"The [G]chances of anything [Am]coming from Mars
are a [F]million to one"
[G]But still they

[Verse 3]
[Am](come)[E]
[E]Then came the night the [Am]first missile
approached Earth
It was thought to be an [Am]ordinary falling [E]star
But the next day there was a huge crater
in the [E]middle of the Com[Am]mon,
and Ogilvy came to examine what lay there
[F]A cyl[Em]inder, thirty yards across,
glowing hot,
[Dm]and with faint[Am] sounds of movement
coming from with[Am]in[E]
Suddenly the top began began moving,
[E]rotating, [Am]unscrewing
And Ogilvy feared there was [Am]a man
in[E]side trying to escape
He rushed to the cylinder but the in[E]tense heat
stopped [Am]him before he could burn
himself on the metal

[Chorus 2]
"The [G]chances of anything [Am]coming from Mars
are a [F]million to one" he [Am]said
"The [G]chances of anything [Am]coming from Mars
are a [F]million to one"
[G]But still they com[Am]e

[Chorus 3]
"Yes, the [G]chances of anything
[Am]coming from Mars
are a [F]million to one" he [Am]said
"The [G]chances of anything [Am]coming from Mars
are a [F]million to one"
[G]But still they

[Outro 1]
[Am](come)[E][E][Am]
[Am][E][E][Am]