Better Off Dead
Tom: Abm
Intro: Abm E B F# Abm E B Abm E B F# Abm E F#
Abm E B F# Abm E B
I'm sorry about the sun
Abm E B F# Abm E F#
How could I know that you would burn?
Abm E B F# Abm E B
And I'm sorry about the moon
Abm E B F# Abm E F#
How could I know that you'd disapprove?
E F#
And I'll never make the same mistake
B F#
The next time I create the universe
Abm F# E F#
I'll make sure we communicate at length
B F# B
Oh yeah
Abm E
But until then, better off dead
B F#
A smile on the lips and hole in the head
Abm E
Better off dead, yeah better than this
B F#
Take it away cuz there's nothing to miss
Abm E B F# Abm E B
I'm sorry about the world
Abm E B F# Abm E F#
How could I know you'd take it so bad?
E F#
And I'll never make the same mistake
B F#
So if you're looking for a patsy
Abm F# E F#
Why not try the entire human race
B F# B
Just to play it safe
Abm E
But until then, better off dead
B F#
A smile on the lips and a hole in the head
Abm E
Better off dead, yeah better than this
B F#
Take it away cuz there's nothing to miss
Abm E
Better off dead, yeah better off dead
B F#
Why don't you try pushing daisies instead
Abm E
Better off dead, yeah better off dead
B F#
A smile on the lips and a hole in the head
E F#
And I'll never make the same mistake
B F#
The next I create the universe
Abm F# E F#
I'll make sure you participate
B F# B
Oh yeah
**Guitar Solo: (based around Abm E B F#)
E F#
And I'll never make the same mistake
B F#
The next time I create the universe
Abm F# E F#
I'll make sure you participate
B F# B
Just in case
Cease
Tom: B
B A G F#
Flat top pave-ment com-fort me
B A G F#
Like a chemical reaction or a steamroller, spreading randomly
B A G F#
There=D5s a distant fuzz of a frequency
B A G F#
It tickles my ears, rustles under my feet
B A G F#
And it shakes the leaves off of every tree
G A F#
Vio-lent-ly
B A G
What protection everlasting peace
A B
Everything must cease
B A G F#
In-sti-tu-tion on the hill
B A G F#
Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor to remind the people's will
B A G F#
There's a shadow stain on the west facade
B A G F#
It is spread like a cave to entrap the pod
B A G F#
And the decent folks find it oh so odd
G A F#
Oh so odd
B A G
What protection everlasting peace
A B
Everything must cease
(Pluck 6th string only -- this part is slow)
B A G F#
Brave me-mo-rials hewn white stone
B A G F#
Like the comforting caress of a mother or a friend you've always known
(Strum from here -- resumes normal Bad Religion tempo)
B A G F#
It evokes such pain and significance
B A G F#
What was once is reduced to remembrance
B A G F#
And the generations pass without recompense
G A F#
Aa-aaaa-hhh...
B A G
What protection everlasting peace
A B
Everything must cease
Along The Way
Tom :C
Intro: C A# F C G# D# A# C
C A# F C
I refuse to abuse what is kind to the muse,
G# D# A# C
But it's there and it's happening to me along the way
C A# F C
As we go through the snow, we cannot forget our foes,
G# D# A# C
But the dinner's always waiting at the table along the way
C A# F C
What you see, not for me, isn't what you planned to be,
G# D# A# C
But you'll have what you wanted in the end along the way.
C A# F C
And we'll try as we cry and our brothers pass us by,
G# D# A# C
To be strong through the ages of our tears along the way
C A# F C
Now we grow as we show that the morals we must know
G# D# A# C
Will be shapen and mistaken by the falls along the way.
C A# F C
But forget, don't regret, to find love and happiness
G# D# A# C
Unless you're willing to be strong when they are gone along the way
C A# F C
Like Tommy, you are free, and you will not follow me,
G# D# A# C
Until we see each other once more on the path along the way
Faith Alone
Tom: A
A F
Heard a sermon from a creaky pulpit
G C G D E2
With no one in the nave
A F
I paid a visit to the synagog and
G C G D E2
I left there feeling blame
F2 G2 A
No one could tell me what to do
F D E2
They have not the capacity to answer me
A G A E A G F G
What the world needs now is some answers to our problems
A G A E A G F G
We can't buy more time 'cause our tender isn't valid
A G A E A G F G
If your soul needs love you can get consoled by pity
F F G A
But it looks as though faith alone won't sustain us no more
A F
Watched the relentists throw their hands
G C G D E2
Conceding progress will resolve it all
A F
Saw the the manufacturers of earth's chloric
G C G D E2
Ignore another green peace call
F2 G2 A
No one could tell me what to do
F D E2
They have not the ability to answer me
A G A E A G F G
What the world needs now is some accountability
A G A E A G F G
We can't buy more time 'cause our time won't accept our money
A G A E A G F G
If your soul needs love you can always have my pity
F F G A
But it looks as though faith alone won't sustain us no more
Forbidden Beat
Tom: D
Intro: Riff: Power Chords: 1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 ^ 1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4
D D D C D D D D C G
Riff 2x
D C G
D C
There was a boy who had too many toys
G D
And an ache inside of his bones
D C
He sought extrication through chemical vocation
G D
And now he just answers to tones
C G D
It's deadly and alluring
F C G
The sound of pounding heat
F C G D
Enslaving all who dare to succumb to
A# C Riff
The temptations of the forbidden beat
D C
Thinking, today, of what I want to say
G D
Thinking of inhibition and vice
D C
What the call straight I do relegate
G D
As I cautiously saltate along
C G D
It's deadly and alluring
F C G
The sound of pounding heat
F C G D
Enslaving all who dare to succumb to
A# C Riff
The temptations of the forbidden beat
D C
It thunders away at first light of each day
G D
And the simpleton lifestyle evolves
D C
But soon enters dusk as the last surrey rusts
G D
And a new day, upon us, results
Hooray For Me
Tom :E
Intro: E D# C# B E F# E/F# (E slide to F#)
E F#
Well I can see my teenage father standing straight on a desolate corner
G# A
In the shadow of tenticled towers by the red light of America
E F# G# E/F#
I imagine how his mother felt when she heard that her husband was dying
E F# G#
And the underground heroes of the tarmack shooting smack were blowing up worlds and
A
Damned out loud
E F# E/F#
Hey can you tell me how does it feel?
Chorus 1:
E B
Tell me, can you imagine for a second
E/F# B
Doing anything that you don't have to
E B
Well that's what I'm accustomed to
E/F#
So hooray for me ... and fuck you
**Intro
E F#
When I slept with stony faces on the riverbank
G# A
My angeldevil reveler shook me desperately in dying
E F# G# E/F#
I don't exactly want to apologize for anything
E F# G#
And now, we're all mad and stranded in secret rooms
A
With Roman candles
E F# E/F#
On an endless graveyard train
Chorus 2:
E B
Yeah tell me, can you imagine for a second
E/F# B
Doing anything just 'cos you want to
E B
Well that's just what I do
E/F#
So hooray for me... And fuck you
**Intro
E D#
Yeah I was dreaming through the howzlife
C# B E
Yawning car black on my mind(?) She told
F#
Me mad and meaningless as ever
E D# C#
And a song came on my radio like a cemetery
B E F#
Rhyme for a million crying corpses in their
E/F#
Tragedy of respectable existence
**Solo (Over chorus chords)
Chorus 3:
E B
Yeah tell me, can you imagine for a second
E/F# B
Trying half the things you ever wanted to
E B
Well that's just what I do
E/F#
So hooray for me... Oh yeah
Chorus 4:
E B
I'm not respectable, never sensible
E/F# B
Maybe incredible, so damn irrascible
E B
I like the things I do
E/F#
So hooray for me... And fuck you
Modern Man
Tom: F
Intro:
F Db G# Eb F
E----------------------16-15-13-16-15-13-16-16-15-15-13-15-16-15-13---------
B------------13--13-14----------------------------------------------16-14-13
G--13--13-13----------------------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Db Gflat Db Eb f
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------15-13--------------13--------------13----------------------
G--15---13-13-13-15-------15-13-15-13-----15-13-15-13-----15-13-12-13----------
D---------------------------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------------------
F Db
I've got nothing to say,
F Db
I've got nothing to do,
F G#
All of my neurons are functioning smoothly
Db Eb F
Yet still I'm a cyborg just like you.
F Db
I'm one big myoma that thinks,
F Db
My planet supports only me,
F G#
I've got this one big problem will I live forever?
Db Eb F
I've got just a short time to see.
Chorus:
F G# Eb F-Eb -F
Modern man - evolutionary betrayer,
F G# Eb F-Eb -F
modern man - ecosystem destroyer,
F G# Eb F-Eb -F
Modern man - destroy yourself in shame,
F G# Db Eb
Modern man - pathetic example of earth's organic heritage.
F Db
When I look back and think,
F Db
When I ponder and ask "why?"
F G#
I see my ancestors spend
Db Eb F
With careless abandon assuming eternal supply
Solo:
E----------------------------------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------------------------------------
G--13--13-13-17--17-15-13-17-15-13-17-15-13-17-15-13-17-15-13-17-15-13-
D----------------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------------
E--------------16-15-13--16-15-13--16-15-13-15-16-15-13--131315151616181820(b)
B----------------------------------------------------------------------------
G-17-15-13-17----------------------------------------------------------------
D----------------------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chorus:
F G# Eb F-Eb -F
Modern man - evolutionary betrayer
F G# Eb F-Eb -F
Modern man - ecosystem destroyer
F G# Eb F-Eb -F
Modern man - destroy yourself in shame
F G# Db Eb
Modern man - pathetic example of earth's organic heritage,
Db Eb
Just a sample of carbon-based wastage
Db Eb F
Just a f***ing tragic epic of you and I . . .
Ending: Db F Db F G# Db Eb F
Quality Or Quantity
Tom: D
Intro: D Bb D Bb D Bb C F D D F C D D Bb F C G
D F C
Offer me eternity,
D Bb F C G
And I'll trade a cup of coffee and a dime
D F C
Looking for a handout
D Bb F C G
On behalf of those who have so little time,
Bridge:
D F C D
But who wants to live on just 70 cents a day?
D F C D
Padding your pockets doesn't make this a better place,
D F C D
"Cereal and water" is a feast for some you say,
D F Bb C
Your price-tag on existence can't cover your double face,
Chorus:
D Bb
Quality or quantity
D Bb
Quality or quantity
D Bb
Quality or quantity
C D D F C D D Bb F C G
A choice you have to make,
D F C
Dipping in the icing
D Bb F D G
Bringing home the largest turkey from the field,
D F C
Breaking all the piggy banks, scooping up the booty,
D Bb F C G
Licking all the right holes, bolstering the payroll,
D F C D
Why reduce life to a dollar amount per day?
D F C D
And why let the world think this is the American way?
D F C D
Your uneaten greens are a feast for some you say,
D F Bb C
Survival and living are concepts you can't equate,
D Bb
Quality or quantity
D Bb
Quality or quantity
D Bb
Quality or quantity
C D
Don't tell me they're the same,
D Bb
Quality or quantity
D Bb
Quality or quantity
D Bb
Quality or quantity
C D
A choice you have to make
Tested
Tom: G
Intro: AAA G CCC G AAA G C B (4x)
G A
Yea they say there's a place free of trouble and care
And you have to pass a test for to make it there
A F
It has something to do with the road thats straight and narrow
C D A
And the only way to go it is by being right and thorough
D A (Play with a ska rhythm)
There's always one more hill to climb
C E(high)
There's always one more hill to climb
Chorus:
A F C G A
Bombarded by multiple choices 24-o-7
A F(high) C G
Navigating a tangled web of logic and passion
A F C G A
Guided by subconscious voices askewed and sharpened
F D G E
Tested Tested oh oh oh
A F
At times we may be wondering what we're supposed to do
C D A
Stand and deliver or see the conflict through
F
And as we long to proceed to build our castles in the sky
C D A
Our plans get confounded and determination dies
D A (ska rhythm)
There's no preparation and no guide
C E (high)
Just what you've done before here with your life
**Chorus
(Play the bridge with intro chord progression)
Acting on will.... the test is a reaction
Opening your heart..... the test is the emotion
Rolling the dice...... The test is the intuity
Burning out your mind..... the test is the recovery
Solo:
E--------------------------------------------------------------|
B--------------------------------------------------------------|
G--9--9--9--7-----------------------------------------------|
D------------------10--9--7--9--9--9--10--9--7---------|
A--------------------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------------------|
B--------------------------------------------------------------|
G--9--9--9--7--9h10--10--9--9--7--------9(bend)---|
D-------------------------------------------10----------------|
A---------------------------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------------|
B--------------------------------------------------------------|
G--9--9--9--7-----------------------------------------------|
D------------------10--9--7--9--9--9--10--9--7---------|
A--------------------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------------------|
B-----------------------------8------8--9(bend)-----------|
G--9------9--10------10-----------------------------------|
D------7------------7-----------7----------------------------|
A--------------------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------------------|
A F
You can play by the rules or bend them to your knees
C D A A A
But the test isn't over to you reach your dark eternal sleep
A F
There are no absolutes no big wheels in the sky
C D A E(high)
You don't have to be first you just got to some how get by yea
**Chorus then end with intro chord progression
Empty Causes
Tom: C
Intro:
E-------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------
G--5---------------------------------
D--5--5--7--2----------------------
A--3--5--7--2---8-7-5-3----------
E------3--5--0-----------3----------
C B A G F G
Everywhere you look there was confusion, violence, drama & drugs
C B A G F
So many righteous revolutionaries spouting Utopian love
E A
Everyone shrouded in a purple haze
E A
Then one day they woke up from their dream state
B C
They found themselves no more at peace than before
D
older, meek, and conformed
C G A E F D
Empty causes, a bluster for the soul, a fix for the mind
C G A E F G C G
Empty causes, cling to everything you find
C B A G F G
The shots rang out like popcorn and the chief was hid and rushed out of sight
C B A G F
The mohawk-chain, leather brigade rejoiced maliciously on that night
E A
Someone cried out "fuck the government"
E A
His mates couldn't define what he meant
B C D
So no one gave him the time of day and the scene died away
C G A E F D
Empty causes, a war for the body and an army in the mind
C G A E F G C
Empty causes, losing steam as time goes by
F G C B A
Could it be that everybody selfishly desires
A F C
Their own personal retinue
F G C B A
And the causes are just manifestations of too much time
F D
And far too little to do
Don't Pray On Me
Tom: G5
Intro: G5 C5 D5 C5 C5 D5 G5
G5 C5 D5 C5
A grizzly scene on my electron beam
C5 D5 D5
Told a story about human rights
G5 C5 D5 C5
So all of Kings horses and all of Kings men
C5 D5 D5
Had a riot for two days and nights
G5 C5 D5 C5
Well, the city exploded but the gates wouldn't open
C5 D5 D5
So the company asked him to quit
G5 C5 D5 C5
Now everybody's equal
C5 D5 G5
Just don't measure it
G5 C5 D5 C5 C5 D5 G5
G5 C5 D5 C5
Well Hanson did it to Hester
C5 D5 D5
And Mark David did it to John
G5 C5 D5 C5
And maybe Jack did it to Marilyn
C5 D5 D5
But he did it to South Vietnam
G5 C5 D5 C5
For beauty and glory
C5 D5 D5
For money, love and country
G5 C5 D5 C5
Now everybody's doing it
C5 D5 G5
Don't do that to me
G5 C5 D5 C5 C5 D5 G5
G5 C5 D5 C5
A bitter debate and a feminine fate
C5 D5 D5
Fly in tandem like two precious ?blades?
G5 C5 D5 C5
A farmer gets warmer its the latter that matters
C5 D5 D5
Except on the nation's airwaves
G5 C5 D5 C5
And custodians of public opinion stay back
C5 D5 D5
At the debate and discuss civil rights
G5 C5 D5 C5
Lay hands off her body
C5 D5 G5
It's not your fucking right
G5 C5 D5 C5 C5 D5 G5
G5 C5 D5 C5
Well I don't know what stopped Jesus Christ
C5 D5 D5
From turning every hungry stone into bread
G5 C5 D5 C5
And I don't remember how Moses reacted
C5 D5 D5
When the innocent first born sons lay dead
G5 C5 D5 C5
Well I guess God was a lot more demonstrative back
C5 D5 D5
When He flamboyantly parted the sea
G5 C5 D5 C5
Now everybody's praying
C5 D5 G5
Don't prey on me
G5 C5 D5 C5
Said everybody's praying
C5 D5 G5
Don't prey on me
G5 C5 D5 C5 C5 D5 G5
Heaven Is Falling
Tom: G
Intro: G D Am G D C
G D Am
As I walk beneath the valley,
G D Am
I shall fear no evil,
G D Am
For thanks to King George and his rainbow cabinet,
G D C D
Today murder is legal
G D Am
God I know that it's wrong,
G D Am
To kill my brother for what he hasn't done,
G D C
And as the planes blacken the sky,
F D
It sounds like heaven is falling,
G D Am C
It sounds like heaven is falling,
G D Am C
You promised me a new day a dawning
G D C
I've seen a thousand points of light,
F G
Like so many points of hatred, shame and horror
**Solo
G D Am
God I want to be a man,
G D Am
But I don't want to die with a rifle in my hand,
G D C
And as the planes blacken the sky,
F D
It sounds like heaven is falling,
G D Am C
It sounds like heaven is falling,
G D Am C
You promised me a new day a dawning
G D C
Well nothing here looks new to me,
F
But a score of mothers 'sons
G F G
Caught 'tween the devil and the deep blue sea
Incomplete
Tom: D#
Intro: D# C# G# B C# x2
D# C# G# B C#
Mother, father, look at your little monster,
D# C#
I'm a hero, I'm a zero,
G# B C#
I'm the butt of the worst joke in history,
D# C# G#
I'm a lock without a key,
B D# C# G#
A city with no door, a prayer without faith,
B D#
A show without a score,
C# B C#
I'm a bad word, a wink, a nod, a shiver,
F# G#
An untold story, sex without fury,
A#
A creeping gray memory,
D# F# G# F# D# F# G# F# D# F# G# F# D# F# G# F# A#
I am incomplete....incomplete....incomplete....incomplete
D# C# G# B C#
Doctor, cure me; what is the cause of my condition,
D# C#
This madness shoots me,
G# B C#
Like bullets smashing glass in a silent movie,
D# C# G#
I'm a trap without a spring,
B D#
A temple with no god,
C# G#
A jack without an ace,
B D#
The tip of your tongue,
C# B C#
I'm a promise, an unmailed letter,
F# G#
An unbuilt motor, deck without a joker,
A#
A creeping gray memory
D# F# G# F# D# F# G# F# D# F# G# F# D# F# G# F#
I am incomplete....incomplete....incomplete....incomplete
**Solo (Chords Are D# C# G# B D# C# G# B D# C# B C# F# G# A#)
G# D# F# G# F# D# F# G# F#
Tell Saint Peter not to bet on me,
G#
I got a naked obsession,
A#
A good intention gone bad,
D# F# G# F# D# F# G# F# D# F# G# F# D# F# G# F#
I am incomplete....incomplete....incomplete....incomplete
Walk Away
Tom: Em
Eriff : Power chords: E-E-D-E-E-D- etc.
Griff : Power chords: G-G-D-G-G-D- etc.
Eriff
Em C D Eriff
Shut off the t.v and peel off those sunday gloves,
Am Em D Eriff
And I`ll stain the clean that you've been counting,
Em C D Griff
Old Mr. Fletcher passed by here today,
Am Em D Eriff
After 40 years of toil he just up and walked away,
Em C D Eriff
Fantastic the panic that showed in his eyes,
Am Em D Eriff
He shrugged when I asked him about it,
Em C D Griff
He said "young man pay heed, you listen well to what I say,
Am Em D Em
Now there comes a time for a man to walk away",
D Em
Walk away, I'll be a parade,
C B5
And I'll be determined that no one shall
Em C
Dissuade on my way,
D G C B5
I'll sure take some time to burn all the bridges
Eriff
That I'm leaving behind,
Em C D Eriff
He passed by again and he was shivering from the cold,
Am Em D Eriff
I'm not sure but I think that he was trying,
Em C D Griff
He told me about the weather and something old to pay,
Am Em D Em
"But tomorrow, " he said, "I'm gonna surely walk away"
D Em
Walk away, I'll be a parade,
C B5
And I'll be determined that no one shall
E C
Dissuade on my way,
D G C B5
I'll take my sweet time and burn all the bridges
Eriff
That I'm leaving behind,
Solo:
1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 ^ 1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 ^ 1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 ^ 1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 ^
e |---------5-----5-5---7h8-7-------5-----7-5-----5-7r5---5-7---7h10-
B |-5---7h8-----------------------8-----8-------7-------8------------
G |------------------------------------------------------------------
1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 ^ 1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 ^ 1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 ^ 1 ^ 2 ^ 3 ^ 4 ^
e |-10r8---7-5---7h8-7-------5-----7-5-----5-7r5---------------------
B |------------------------8-----8-------7-------8r7-5---------------
G |------------------------------------------------------------------
Walk
D Em
Away, I'll be a parade,
C B5
And I'll be determined that no one shall
Eriff
Dissuade
21 St Century Digital Boy
Tom: D
Intro: D
D F G A# A
I can't believe it,
D F G A#
The way you look sometimes,
A D F C G
Like a trampled flag on a city street,
D F A
Oh yeah
D F G A# A
And I don't want it,
D F G A# A
The things you're offering me,
D F C G
Symbolized bar code, quick i.d.,
D F A
Oh yeah
D A# F C
I'm a 21st century digital boy,
D A# F C
I don't know how to live, but I've got a lot of toys,
D A# F G
My daddy is a lazy middle class intellectual,
D A# F G A
My mommy's on valium, she's so ineffectual, ain't life a mystery?
D F G A# A D F A
D F G A# A
I can't explain it,
D F G A#
The things they're saying to me,
It's going yayayayayayaya,
Oh yeah,
D A# F C
I'm a 21st century digital boy,
D A# F C
I don't know how to read, but I've got a lot of toys,
D A# F G
My daddy is a lazy middle class intellectual,
D A# F G A
My mommy's on valium, she's so ineffectual, ain't life a mystery?
C
I tried to tell you about no control,
G
But now I really don't know,
A# F
And then you told me how bad you had to suffer,
A
Is that really all you have to offer?
**Solo
D A# F C
I'm a 21st century digital boy...
Big Bang
Tom: A
Intro:A-A-D#-A-A-D#-A-A-D#-A-A-D#
A-A-C-G A-A-C-D
A-A-C-G F C-B-A-G
A
This isn't another new fashion
C
Or a new plastic trend,
G
Everybody's searching for something
D
But in the mean time let's all just pretend
A
I've got this feeling
C
And I don't know what it is,
G
This room is overcrowded man
D
And I need air to breathe
A C
Big bang, big crunch,
G D
You know there's no free lunch
A C
Kneel down and pray,
G D
Here comes your judgment day
A C
Big crunch, you know
G D
It's going to be quite a show
A C G D
What goes around always comes around
A-A-D#-A-A-D#-A-A-D#-A-A-D#
A-A-C-G A-A-C-D
A-A-C-G F
A
A million hopeless faces
C
Dwell within protected walls,
G
All waiting for a moment in their lives
D
When they can heed the clarion call,
A
And it's all so oppressive
C
My mind feels like a sieve,
G
This city is overcrowded man
D
And I need room to live
A C
Big bang, big crunch,
G D
You know there's no free lunch
A C
Kneel down and pray,
G D
Here comes your judgment day
A C
Big crunch, you know
G D
It's going to be quite a show
A C G D
What goes around always comes around
A-A-D#-A-A-D#-A-A-D#-A-A-D#
B
I think of the countless shadows
D
That have all come and gone,
A
All suffering in the notion
E
Of better things to come,
B
If you share these beliefs
D
You know I wish you well,
A
'Cause there's no room left in heaven,
E
And there's sure no room in hell
B D
Big bang, big crunch,
A E
You know there's no free lunch
B D
Kneel down and pray,
A E
Here comes your judgment day
B D
Big crunch, you know
A E
It's going to be quite a show
B D A E
What goes around always comes around
B-B-F-B-B-F-B-B-F-B
Change Of Ideas
Tom: D
D A E
Well the sheaves have all been brought,
D E F#
But the fields have washed away,
D A E
And the palaces now stand
D E F#
Where the coffins all were laid,
D A E
And the times we see ahead
D E F#
We must glaze with rosy hues
D A E
For we don't wish to admit
D E F#
What it is we have to lose
F# A E
F# A E
Millennia in coming,
F# A E
The modern age is here,
F# A E
It sanctifies the future
F# A E
Yet renders us with fear,
F# A E F#
So many theories, so many prophecies,
D A E F#
What we do need is a change of ideas,
F# A E F#
When we are scared we can hide in our reveries,
D A E F#
But what we need is a change of ideas,
F# A E F#
Change of ideas, change of ideas,
D A E F#
What we need now is a change of ideas
D A E F#
Fertile Crescent
Tom: C
Intro:
Lead Guitar (Play Twice)
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B--1-1-1-1------------1-1-1-1----------1-1-1-1-------------------------------
G----------3-1-0-0-0----------3-1-0-0----------3-1-0-------3----------------
D----------------------------------------------------1-----3--5-------------
A------------------------------------------------------3---1--5-------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------3---(p.s.)----
2nd Guitar:
C G# C C G# C C G# C Bb G (p.s.)
C G# C
Come and see the brilliant lights
C G# C
Don't let your emotions mask your sight
C G# C
It's a manifestation of a deeper fight
Bb G
That effects me and you
C G# C
My optimism was running high
C G# C
A new world order was on my mind
C G# C
But I couldn't believe it when I heard them say
Bb G
They're throwing it away . . . (highG)
Chorus I:
Eb Bb C Bb C
And the fertile crescent is burning today
Eb Bb F highG
And baby my emotions are too
Eb Bb C Bb C
The cradle of humanity has led us all astray
G# Bb G
And we're all in this together don't you know
G# Bb
Cause our species has nowhere else to go.
C G# C
Aggression rears its ugly head,
C G# C
Retaliation brings further dread
C G# C
The two are linked by unseen threads
Bb G
That wind back through time
C G# C
I don't agree with this out-dated trend,
C G# C
Nationalism's but an evil friend
C G# C
Hatred's instilled by invisible lines
Bb G
Drawn in our minds
Chorus II:
Eb Bb C Bb C
And the fertile Crescent is haunting us today
Eb Bb F highG
And baby our instincts are too
Eb Bb C Bb C
The ghost of humanity is warning us this way
G# Bb G
And I think we all should heed it don't you know,
G# Bb
Cause we don't know where else to go.
Solo:
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B--1-1-1-1-4-3-1----------------1-1-1-1-4-3-1----------------9--------------
G----------------3-1-0-0-1-0------------------3-1-0-0-1-0----8-(B)----------
D----------------------------3----------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------11--11-10--------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------------------------------
G---5---5-5---8---8-8-------------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chorus III:
Eb Bb C Bb C
And the Fertile Crescent is haunting us today
Eb Bb F highG
And baby our instincts are too
Eb Bb C Bb C
The ghost of humanity is warning us this way
G# Bb G
And I think we all should heed it don't you know
G# Bb
Cause we've got nowhere else to go.
High G =
-----------------
--8--------------
--7----or----12--
--5----------12--
-------------10--
-----------------
(p.s.) = pick slide.
(B) = bend.
Flat Earth Society
Tom: E
E D E B
Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie
E D
The full moon is rising over dark water
C B
And the fools below are picking up sticks
E D
And the man in the gallows lies permanently
C B
Waiting for the doctors to come back and tend to him,
G D
The flat earth society is meeting here today,
G B G
Singing happy little lies and the bright ship
D A
Humana is sent far away
F# G A B
With grave determination.... And no destination,
E D E B
Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie
E D
Yeah, nothing feels better than a spray of
C B
Clean water and the whistling wind on a calm summer night,
E D
But you'd better believe that down in their quarters
C B
The men are holding in for their dear lives,
G D
The flat earth society is somewhere far away,
G B G
With their candlesticks and compasses and
D A
The bright ship humana is well on its way
F# G A B
With grave determination.... And no destination,
E D E B
Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie (ad infinitum)
Land Of Competition
Tom: E
Intro: E D E D
E D
See, there's a girl who's afraid of the world
E D
So she stays at home,
E D
Also a boy who seems so lost in his joy
E D
He's all alone,
C G D E
The camera's on them, they're in the land of competition,
C D E
Southern california air feeds them,
C G D E
And they know they're the best 'cuz of the way they are dressed,
C D E D E D
But you can bet you are not welcome in their home,
E D
See there's a girl who sits and
E D
Watches the world from her blue screen,
E D
Also a boy who truly wants to destroy his
E D
Hometown scene,
C G D E
They both want to travel to the land of competition,
C D E
Southern california will destroy them,
C G D E
And they won't be the best, they'll be the poseurs who dress
C D E D E D
Like the plastic idiots who they copy
E D
Tell me what do you need to make you happy?
E D
Indeed, is it out of your reach?
E D
Beware of number one, see all the damage it has done,
E D
There are so few of them,
C G D E
You won't find too many in the land of competition,
C D E
Southern California doesn't breed them,
C G D E
If you just want the best turn to yourself for the rest,
C D E D E D
And forget about the one's who "have it all"
C D E
Be careful of the ones who "have it all"
No Direction
Tom: E
Intro: E C D (4x)
E D A
Every day we profit so,
E D A
Leaning towards the great unknown,
E G A E C D
Asking how it pertains to tomorrow
E C D
E D A
Aim for places we've not been,
E D A
Trample paths that go between,
E G A E C D
Yesterdays foundations and tomorrow
E C D
E D
It's the way they say it's got to be,
C G D
We spear ahead and forge our destiny,
E
Who do they represent?
D
Who do you believe?
C D E D A
Make a sound decision for others to heed
E D A
E D A
Try to set a faster pace,
E D A
Try to build a master race,
E G A E C D
One that will make a contribution to tomorrow
**Solo: E C D
E D
It's the way they say it's got to be,
C G D
We put aside our fears and make history,
E D
The clothes are in the dryer and the writing is on the wall
C D E C D
We're doing everything we can to stop this fall
E C D
E C G D A
Everyday we profit so,
E C G D A
Leaning towards the great unknown
C G D A C G D A E
The Positive Aspect Of Negative Thinking
Tom: D
D A
Let's gather 'round the carcass of the old deflated beast,
C G
We have seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea,
D A
Syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease,
C G D
The swath endogenous of ourselves will be our quandary,
D A
We've nestled in its hollow and we've suckled at its breast,
C G
Grandiloquent our attitude, impassioned yet inept,
D A
Frivolous gavel our design, ludicrous our threat,
C G D
Excursive expeditions leave us holding less and less,
A
So what does it mean?
F C
When we tell ourselves it's only for a while we have been deceived
A# F
And it's only for a moment that the treasures of our day make
C A#
Life easier to complicate, the treasure thrown away,
G G# F G G# F
I'm so tired of all the fucked up minds
G G# F G G# F
Of all the terrorist religions and their bullshit lines,
G G# F G G# F
Of all the hand-me-downs from all industrial crimes
G G# F G G# F
And the weeping mothers and those who are led so blind,
G G# F G G# F
From the plastic protests and the hands of time
G G# F G G# F
And the pursuit of mirth and all hating kind
Turn On The Light
Tom: D
Intro: F F
D C G D
I had a friend who kept a candle in his pocket
D C G D
He used to touch it when the wind was blowing high
D C G D
I guess it made him feel like he could buck the system
D C G D
And when it flickered out we laid him down to die
D F G
I turn on the light,
C G F
Turn on a million blinding brilliant white incendiary lights
D F G
A beacon in the night,
C G F
I'll burn relentlessly until my juice runs dry
D F G F F
D C G D
And I'll construct a rack of tempered beams and trusses
D C G D
And equip it with just a million tiny suns
D C G D
I'll install upon the roof of my compartment
D C G D
And place tinfoil on my floor and on my walls
D F G
Then I'll turn on the light,
C G F
Turn on a million blinding brilliant white incendiary lights
D F G
A beacon in the night,
C G F
I'll burn relentlessly until my juice runs dry
D F G F F
D D C D D C D (During Bass "Solo")
D
And I'll
D G C F
Bu urn, like a Roman fucking candle
D G C F
Bu urn, like a chasm in the night
D G C F
Bu urn, for a miniscule duration
D C G D
Ecstatic immolation, incorrigible delight
D F G
You Are (The Government)
Tom: F
Intro: F G# A# C# D# F G# A# C# C (x4)
C# G# D# F
Hey, sit down and listen and they'll tell you when you're wrong,
C# G# D# A#
Eradicate but vindicate as "progress" creeps along,
C# G# D# F
Puritan work ethic maintains its subconscious edge,
C# D# F
As old glory maintains your consciousness
C# D# F
F G# A# C# D# F G# A# C# C (x2)
C# G# D# F
There's a loser in the house and a puppet on a stool,
C# G# D# A#
And a crowded way of life and a black reflecting pool,
C# G# D# F
And as the people bend the moral fabric dies,
C# D# F#
Then country can't pretend to ignore its people's cries
C# D# F
C# D#
F D# F G# D# G# D#
You are the government,
F D# F G# D# G# D#
You are jurisprudence,
F D# F G# D# G# D#
You are the volition,
F D# F G# D# G# D#
You are jurisdiction
F C# G# D# F
And I make a difference too