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