Key: D
Introduction:
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the chords over the lyrics used to be on the right word (or before the right word)
but my file got messed up. so it should be easy to figure out anyways.
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He's at the show
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talking feminism to get into your pants oh yeah
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Well he'll quote Emma Goldman
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but he'll never get up to dance
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And who are these kids who come to the shows
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determined not to have fun
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I see them everywhere I go with their arms crossed
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in the back the whole night long
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One thing about rock and roll is
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that it's freedom yeah
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The symbol and the literal and the theory and the practice
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So if you aren't dead then you might as well be dancing
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and if you aren't dancing then you might as well be dead
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I'm waiting for the show to end
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in rioting oh yeah
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to show us life is struggle
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so we're fighting or we're dying and my
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politics of dancing is the only cause worth fighting for
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cause after the revolution every intersection will be a dance floor
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One thing about rock and roll is
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that it's freedom yeah
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The symbol and the literal and the theory and the practice
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So if you aren't dead then you might as well be dancing
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and if you aren't dancing then you might as well be dead
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yeah if you aren't dancing then you might as well be dead
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yeah if you aren't dancing then you might as well be dead