Sleep Now In the Fire — Rage Against the Machine
Chords and lyrics for Sleep Now In the Fire by Rage Against the Machine (key of Am).
Intro
[F] [F#] [F] [F#] [Cm7/A#] [A#maj7/F] [Am] [D] [A] [Am] [A]
Verse 1
You
[D] [F#m7/A] [Am] [Dm/A] [Am] [D/A] [Am7] [Em] [A7] [C] [A7] [Em] [Gsus2/A]
Lord I
What you need [Em] are tail and belly, nose committed and smothered the rest in green.
Grow with [A7] me and through tomorrow I'll drag you to no grave.
I'm deep inside your children, I'ma [Am] sweat you in my name.
Chorus
Hey, hey, [Dm/A] sleep down in [A] the fire.
[C/G] [A] [C/G] [A]
Hey, [C] hey, [D/A] sleep down [A] in the fire.
Verse 2
Your life is my [A7] expense, [Em] with a scope of my desire.
The party blessed me with its future, but I'm protected with fire.
[A7] I am the leader, the preacher, the center, [C] Maria, the new center, the rapist, the real super seer,
my agents, my voyage, the priest, the female seer, my cross, the minus eye.
Chorus
Sleep [A] down in the fire.
[Am]
Hey, [C] hey, [Dm/A] sleep [Am] down in the fire.
Hey, [C] hey, [Dm/A] sleep [Am] down in the fire.
Verse 3
[C]
For it's the end of history, it's caged in folks and still.
There is no other pill to take, so swallow the one that makes you ill.
Maria, the preacher, the center, Maria, the new center, the rapist, the real super seer, my agents, my voyage, the priest, the female seer,
my cross, the minus eye.
Chorus
Sleep down in the fire.
[Fmaj7/E] [Am]
Yeah!
[D] [A] [Am] [A] [C/G] [D/A] [Am]
Yeah!
[D/A] [Am]
Sleep down in the fire.
[C]
Sleep [D/A] down [A] in the fire.
[Am] Sleep down in the fire.
[D/A] [A7] [G7]
Outro
A [A#m] band called the Machine [Gm7] Rages On, or Rage Against the Machine, [Fmaj7] that band is [C] anti -family and [Gm] it's pro -terrorist.
[Am] [A#m/F]