F | G | F | G   (play chords each for one measure, then riff section)

riff: (Guitar 2 plays riff, Guitar 1 plays chords above tab)

F(VIII)  G(X)    C(III) D(V)        C

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G-|---10-------12\-------5-----7----------4\0--|

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D5                      D7(no 3rd)             G/D

These bastards stole their power         from the victims of the

Em7               D5                  D7(no 3rd)      G/D

Us v.  Them years.  Wrecking all things virtuous    and true.

D5             D7(no 3rd)             G/D                 Em7

The undermining social         democratic downhill slide into      abysmal

D5                    D7(no 3rd)      G/D                  Em7

lost lamb off the precipice      into     the trickle down runoff pool.

They hypnotized the summer, nineteen seventy-nine.

Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,

heartless, and labeled.  Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,

mega ultra power dosing.  Relax.

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)     C

Defense, defense, defense, defense.  Yeah,        yeah,         yeah.

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D

Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D

Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C

Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.

The information nation took their clues     from all the sound - bite gluttons.

D5                      D7(no 3rd)                          G/D     Em7

Nineteen eighty, eighty-four,      eighty-eight, ninety-two     too,    too.

D5             D7(no 3rd)         G/D                   Em7

How to be what you        can be, jump jam junking your energies.

D5             D7(no 3rd)      G/D              Em7

How to walk in dignity    with throw-up on your shoes.

They amplified the autumn, nineteen seventy-nine.

Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass.

T.V. tells a million lies.  The papers terrified to report

anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon,

G                                 F(VIII) G(X)      C(III) D(V)  C

I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this.  So,          what to     do,  man.

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D

Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D

Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.

If they weren't there we would have created them.  Maybe, it's true,

but I'm resentful all the same.  Someone's got to take the blame.

D5                D7(no 3rd)  G/D         Em7

I know that this is vitriol.    No solution,    spleen-venting,

D5             D7(no 3rd)                 G/D      Em7

But I   feel better having     screamed; don't you?

They desecrated winter, nineteen seventy-nine.

Capital collateral.  Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,

heartless, and labeled.  Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,

mega ultra power dosing.  Relax.

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)     C

Defense, defense, defense, defense.  Yeah,        yeah,         yeah.

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D

Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D

Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C

Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.

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D            F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C  D

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C  D

F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C  D