Elton John – Restless (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]

       C
It's a hot summer night in the blackboard jungle

Crime sits heavy on the city shoulder

F                    C
Can't get no work, I can't get a job

       Ab       Bb           C
I just sit and play my radio in the parking lot

     C
Well they're breaking down doors in foreign countries

Everybody thinks somebody's hiding something

        F           C
There's talk on the street and the nation is worried

    Ab             Bb            C
But you can't talk back when you're dead, when you're dead and

Buried [Chorus]

                F
And Everybody's restless

      C
Everybody's scared

      Am            C/E  F   G
Everybody's looking for something that just ain't there

 C
Everybody's restless

[Verse 2]

C
Everybody's scared, they think we're all in danger

Everyone's taking cover from someone else's anger

    F          C
The walls have ears, Big Brother's watching

      Ab          Bb             C
They tell us that we're poisoned from everything that we're

Touching

C
Well we could be children from the way we're acting

We feed ourselves lies and then we scream for action

F
We just breed and we lose our nerve

    Ab            Bb       C
And there's bombs going off in every corner of the world

[Chorus]

                F
And Everybody's restless

      C
Everybody's scared

      Am            C/E  F   G
Everybody's looking for something that just ain't there

 C
Everybody's restless

[Instrumental verse] C F C Ab Bb C [Chorus]

                F
And Everybody's restless

      C
Everybody's scared

      Am            C/E  F   G
Everybody's looking for something that just ain't there

 C
Everybody's restless

[Outro]

C    F     Bb          C
Rest-less. Everybody’s restless