The original song is played in standard tuning. In my YouTube video I play down a
whole step. You can follow along to that video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4UB-mRU8SE
Am F C G
Am C D (a few times)
E C D (once)
C C/B
Am C D (a few times)
E C D (once)
C C/B D
Am Dm
Where are all the stupid people from?
Am F C G
And how'd they get to be so dumb?
C C/B
Bred on purple mountain range
Bb
Feed amber waves of grains
F/A F
To lesser human beings, zero feelings
Am B C
Blame it on
F C
Human nature, mans destiny (mans destiny)
F C
Blame it on the greediocracy (greediocracy)
Dm
Fear of god
Bb
The fear of change
F
The fear of truth
C F
Add the bill of rights, subtract the wrongs
Ab
There's no answers
C F
Memorize and sing star spangled songs
Ab
When the questions
C G
Aren't ever asked
Am F
Is anybody learning from the past?
C G F E
We're living in united stagnation
Am F G E
Am F G E
Am G
Father what have I done?
C C/B Am
I took that 22
F C G
A gift to me from you
Dm Am
To bed with me each night
F
Kept it clean
C
Polished it well
F C C/B F
Cherished every cartridge, every shell
Am F
Down, by the creek, under brush, under dirt
G Am Ab G F# F E
There's a carcass of my second kill
Am F
Down, by the park, under stone, under pine
G Am
There's a carcass of my brother William
F
Brother where, have you gone to?
C
I swear, I never thought I could
I see so many times
Dm
They told me to shoot straight
Don't pull the trigger, squeeze
C
That will insure a kill
A kill is what you want
F C F C F C
A kill is why we breed
D D/C# C G D G D G D
D D/C# D G D G D G D
D D/C#
The christians love their guns
C G D G D G D
The church and nra
D D/C#
Pray for their salvations
C G D G D G D
Prey on the lower faiths
E E/D#
The story book's been read
D A E A E A E
And every line believed
E E/D#
Curriculum's been set
D
Logic is a threat
A E A E A E
Reason searched and seized
E E7 A Am
E E7 A Am
E E B A
E C#m A B
E A Am
Jerry spent some time in Michigan
E C#m F#m B
A twenty year vacation, after all he had a dime
E E/D# C#m B
A dime is worth a lot more in Detroit
A E A B
A dime in california, a twenty dollar fine
E E B A
E C#m A B
E A Am
Jerry only stayed a couple months
E C#m F#m B
It's hard to enjoy yourself while bleeding out the a*s
E E/D# C#m B
Asphyxiation is simple and fast
A E A B
It beats seventeen fun years of being someones b***h
E
Don't think (stay)
D
Drink your wine (home)
D/C#
Watch the fire burn (be)
A
His problems not mine (safe)
E A E E
Just be that model citizen
E E7
I wish I had a schilling
A
For every senseless killing
Am
I'd buy a government
E E7
America's for sale
A
And you can get a good deal on it
Am
And make a healthy profit
E C
Or maybe, tear it apart
Am E
Start with assumption
E C
That a million people are smart
Am E C D G D/F#
Smarter than one
Weird rhythm
Em C D Em
Em C D Em
Em C D G
Em B C G
Em B
Serotonin's gone
C G
She gave up, drifted away
Em D D/C#
Sara fled, thought process gone
C D G
She left her answering machine on
Em D D/C#
The greeting left spoken sincere
C D G
Messages no one will ever hear
Am C G
Ten thousand messages a day
D Am
A million more transmissions lay
C G
Victims of the laissez faire
Am C G
Ten thousand voices, a hundred guns
D Am
A hundred decibels turns to one
C G
One bullet, one empty head
Em D
Now with serotonin gone
C B Am G Eoctave E with maj3 Eoctave Emaj3
C B Am G E
C
The man who used to speak
E
Performs a cute routine
D D/C#
Feel a little patronized
C
Don't feel bad
G
They found a way inside your head
D
And you feel a bit misled
Am
It's not that they don't care, yeah
C E
The television's put a thought inside your head
D D/C#
Like a barry manilow, jingle
C G
I'd like, to teach the world to sing
D
In perfect harmony
Am
A symphonic blank stare, yeah
C E
It doesn't make you care (make you care)
C E
Not designed to make you care (make you care)
C E
They're betting you won't care (you won't...)
C E C Am G
C D G Em
C B Am G Em
Tough Bass (I just play chords) D Em G low E ring
Em D Em D
C G D Em
Place a wager on your greed
C Em D
A wager on your pride
C G D Em C Em D
Why try to beat them when, a million others tried?
C Em
We are the whore
G D
Intellectually spayed
C Em
We are the q***r
G D
Dysfunctionally raised
Em C D G D/F#
Em C D G D/F#
Em (let ring)
D string picked
5th fret G string picked
4th fret G string picked
1st fret G string picked
E Abm
One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
E C
One more pill to kill the pain
D A
Living through conformity
E Abm
E Abm
One more prayer to keep me safe
One more prayer to keep us warm
E C
One more prayer to keep us safe
D A
There's gonna be a better place
E B D
A E
Lost the battle, lost the war
Bm
Lost the things worth living for
D
Lost the will to win the fight
One more pill to kill the pain
A
Na na na na na
F#m
La na na na na
D
Na na na na na
E
Na na na na na
A
The going get tough, the tough get debt
F#m
Don't pay attention, pay the rent
D
Next of kins pay for your sins
E A
A little faith should keep us safe
Dm F C E
Dm
F
Save us
C
The human, existence
E
Is failing, resistance
Dm
Essential, the future
F
Written off, the odds are
C
Astronomically against us
E
Only moron and genius
Dm
Would fight a losing battle
F
Against the super ego
C E (hold)
When giving in is so damn comforting
Dm F
And so we go, on with our lives
C E
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Am C
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
Dm F
Why go against tradition when we can
C E
Admit defeat, live in decline
Am F
Be the victim of our own design
Dm F
The status quo, built on suspect
C C/B Am
Why would anyone stick out their neck?
F
Fellow members
G
Club "we've got ours"
C C/B Am
I'd like to introduce you to our host
F Fm
He's got his, and I've got mine
C
Meet the decline
Em C D G D/F#
We are the q***r
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war
We are worker
We love our queen
We sacrifice
We're soilent green
We are the q***r
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war
Em C D G D/F#
(Eventually modulates up a whole step to)
F#m D E A A/Ab
