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Intro: F# B C# (2x bass only)
FA# SI DO#
Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair
FA#
Flame up the herb
SI DO#
Woof down the beer (2x and continues on background)
(click!)
FA# SI DO#
Hi! I'm your video DJ
FA# SI DO#
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
FA# SI DO# FA# SI DO#
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go
FA# SI DO#
My job is to help destroy
FA# SI DO#
What's left of your imagination
FA# SI DO#
By feeding you endless doses
FA# SI DO#
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage
FA# SI DO#
So don't create Be sedate
FA# SI DO#
Be a vegetable at home And thwack on that dial
FA# SI DO#
If we have our way even you will believe (Fun fun fun... ends)
FA#
This is the future of rock and roll
(M.T.V GET OFF THE AIR!)
FA# SI LA
How far will you go
FA# SI LA
How low will you stoop
SI LA SI LA
To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill
FA# SI LA
You've turned rock and roll rebellion
FA# SI LA
Into Pat Boone sedation
SI LA SI RE
Making sure nothing's left of the imagination
DO# SI
M.T.V. Get off the
DO# SI
M.T.V. Get off the
DO# SI FA#
M.T.V. Get off the air (2x)
MI FA#
Get off the air
FA# SI LA FA# SI LA
See the latest rejects from the muppet show
SI LA
Wag their tits and their dicks
SI LA
As they lip-synch on screen
FA#
There's something I don't like
SI LA FA# SI LA
About a band who always smiles
SI LA
Another tax write-off
SI RE
For some schmuck who doesn't care
M.T.V. Get off the air...
Get off the air
Get off the air
FA# FA MI MIb DO#
Get off the air
(bass break - following line twice: 1st time with bass only, 2nd time with
guitar playing chords above)
DO# SI DO# SI FA# MI FA# MI
g --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
d --------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|2\1-----|4-4-6-4-|2\1-----|
a 4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|----4-2-|
e ----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
(and this once)
DO# SI DO# SI FA# MI DO#
g --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
d --------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|2\1-----|4-------|--------|
a 4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|--------|
e ----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
C#m B A G# (2x trumpet or something)
DO# SI
And so it was
DO# SI
Our beloved corporate gods
FA# MI FA# MI
Claimed they created rock video
DO# SI DO# SI
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
FA# MI DO#
As commercial TV has in 25
DO#m SI
"It's the new frontier," they say
LA SOL#
It's wide open, anything can happen
DO#m
But you've got a lot of nerve
SI
To call yourself a pioneer
LA
When you're too god-damn conservative
SOL#
To take real chances.
DO# SI
Tin-eared
DO# SI FA#
Graph-paper brained accountants
MI FA# MI
Instead of music fans
DO# SI DO# SI
Call all the shots at giant record companies now
FA# MI DO#
The lowest common denominator rules
DO#m
Forget honesty
SI
Forget creativity
LA
The dumbest buy the mostest
SOL#
That's the name of the game
DO#m
But sales are slumping
SI
And no one will say why
LA SOL#
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?
DO# SI FA#
M.T.V. - Get off the air!
FA#
NOW!
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