Key: B
Introduction:
F#5 B5 C#5
Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair
F#5 B5 C#5
Flame up the herb. Woof down the beer
F#5 B5 C#5
Hi. I'm your video DJ
F#5 B5 C#5
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
F#5 B5 C#5 F#5 B5 C5
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go
F#5 B5 C#5
My job is to help destroy
F#5 B5 C#5
What's left of your imagination
F#5 B5 C#5
By feeding you endless doses
F#5 B5 C#5
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage
At this point the chords become full chords instead of power chords.
F# B C#
So don't create. Be sedate
F# F#4 F# B C#
Be a vegetable at home and thwack on that dial
F# F#4 F# B C#
If we have our way even you will believe
F#(Let
This is the future of rock and roll
MTV Get Off The Air!
F# B A
How far will you go
F# B A
How low will you stoop
B A B A
To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill
F# B A
You've turned rock and roll rebellion
F# B A
Into Pat Boone sedation
B A B D
Making sure nothing's left to the imagination
C# B
M.T.V. Get off the
C# B
M.T.V. Get off the
C# B F#
M.T.V. Get off the air (X2)
E F#
Get off the air(X2)
F# B A
See the latest rejects from the
F# B A
Muppet show
B A B A
Wag their tits and their dicks as they lip-synch on screen
F# B A
There's something I don't like
F# B A
About a band who always smiles
B A B D
Another tax write-off for some schmuck who doesn't care
C# B
M.T.V. Get off the
C# B
M.T.V. Get off the
C# B F#
M.T.V. Get off the air (X2)
E F#
Get off the air(X2), then
E F# FE D# C#
Get off the air
C# B
And so it was
C# B
Our beloved corporate gods
F# E F# E
Claimed they created rock video
C# B C# B
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
F# E C#
As commercial TV has in 25
C# B
"It's the new frontier," they say
A G#
It's wide open, anything can happen
C# B
But you've got a lot of nerve to call yourself a pioneer
A G#
When you're too god-damn conservative to take real chances.
B A
Tin-eared
B A F# E F# E
Graph-paper brained accountants instead of music fans
B A B A
Call all the shots at giant record companies now
F# E C#
The lowest common denominator rules
C#
Forget honesty
B
Forget creativity
A
The dumbest buy the mostest
G#
That's the name of the game
C#
But sales are slumping
B
And no one will say why
A G#
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?
C# B F#
M.T.V. - Get off the air!
F#
NOW!
There you have it. This is my first tab, so if it somehow came out completely wrong, i