War Of The Worlds (Part 2) Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
No one would have be[Am]lieved 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 [E]against[Am][E][Am]
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[Am]us[E]

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 2]
[G]At 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

[Verse 3]
As I [Am]watched,
there was another jet of gas

[Interlude 2]
It was another missile, starting on it's way
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[Verse 4]
And that's how it was [Am]for
the next ten [F]nights
[Am]A flare, spurting out from Mars
Bright green, drawing a green mist behind it
A beautiful, but somehow
[E]disturbing sight
[Am]Ogilvy, the astronomer,
assured me we were in no danger
He was convinced there could be no
living [E]thing on that re[Am]mote
Forbidding planet

[Verse 5]
[G]The chances of anything
[Am]coming from Mars
Are a [F]million to one,
[Am]he said (ahh)
[G]The chances of anything
[Am]coming from Mars
Are a [F]million to [G]one, but still,
they come
[Am][E]

[Verse 6]
[E]Then came the [Am]night the first
missile approached Earth
It was thought to be an ordinary [E]falling star
But [Am]next day there was a huge crater
in the middle of the common
And Ogilvy came to examine what lay there

[Verse 7]
A cylinder, thirty [Am]yards across,
glowing hot
With faint sounds of movement
coming from [E]within
[Am]Suddenly the [E]top began moving,
[Am]rotating, unscrewing
And Ogilvy feared there was a man
inside try[E]ing [Am]to escape
He rushed [Dm]to the cylinder [Am]but
the intense heat stopped him
Before he could burn himself on the metal
The [G]chances of

[Verse 8]
[G]anything
[Am]coming from Mars
Are a million [F]to one,
[Am]he said (ahh)
[G]The chances of anything
[Am]coming from Mars
Are [F]a million [G]to one, but still, they come
[Am]

[Verse 9]
Yes, the [G]chances of anything
[Am]coming from Mars
Are a million [F]to one,
he [Am]said (ahh)
[G]The chances of anything
[Am]coming from Mars
Are a [F]million to [G]one, but still,

[Interlude 3]
they come
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[Verse 10]
[Am]It seems totally incredible to me now that
Everyone spent that evening as though
it were [Am]just like any other
From the railway station came
the sound of shunting trains
Ringing and rumbling,
softened almost into melody by the distance
[Am]

[Verse 11]
It all seemed so safe and tranquil