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IGNORELAND

Intro:

F | G | F | G   (play chords each for one measure, then riff section)

riff: (Guitar 2 plays riff, Guitar 1 plays chords above tab)

F(VIII)  G(X)    C(III) D(V)        C
E-|--------------------------------------------|
B-|---10-------12\-------8----10---------------|
G-|---10-------12\-------5-----7----------4\0--|
D-|--------------------------------------------|
A-|--------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------------|

D5                      D7(no 3rd)             G/D
These bastards stole their power         from the victims of the
Em7               D5                  D7(no 3rd)      G/D
Us v.  Them years.  Wrecking all things virtuous    and true.
D5             D7(no 3rd)             G/D                 Em7
The undermining social         democratic downhill slide into      abysmal
D5                    D7(no 3rd)      G/D                  Em7
lost lamb off the precipice      into     the trickle down runoff pool.
CC Piano Chord 
              DD Piano Chord 
       CC Piano Chord 
               DD Piano Chord 

They hypnotized the summer, nineteen seventy-nine.
CC Piano Chord 
                DD Piano Chord 
                     FF Piano Chord 
                        GG Piano Chord 

Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,
FF Piano Chord 

heartless, and labeled.  Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
GG Piano Chord 

mega ultra power dosing.  Relax.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)     C
Defense, defense, defense, defense.  Yeah,        yeah,         yeah.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.

D5D5 Piano Chord 
                                  G/DG/D Piano Chord 
                   Em7Em7 Piano Chord 

The information nation took their clues     from all the sound - bite gluttons.
D5                      D7(no 3rd)                          G/D     Em7
Nineteen eighty, eighty-four,      eighty-eight, ninety-two     too,    too.
D5             D7(no 3rd)         G/D                   Em7
How to be what you        can be, jump jam junking your energies.
D5             D7(no 3rd)      G/D              Em7
How to walk in dignity    with throw-up on your shoes.

CC Piano Chord 
              DD Piano Chord 
      CC Piano Chord 
                DD Piano Chord 

They amplified the autumn, nineteen seventy-nine.
CC Piano Chord 
              DD Piano Chord 
                    FF Piano Chord 

Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass.
GG Piano Chord 
                                   FF Piano Chord 

T.V. tells a million lies.  The papers terrified to report

anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon,
G                                 F(VIII) G(X)      C(III) D(V)  C
I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this.  So,          what to     do,  man.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.

CC Piano Chord 
                                                     BmBm Piano Chord 

If they weren't there we would have created them.  Maybe, it's true,
BbBb Piano Chord 
                           AA Piano Chord 

but I'm resentful all the same.  Someone's got to take the blame.
D5                D7(no 3rd)  G/D         Em7
I know that this is vitriol.    No solution,    spleen-venting,
D5             D7(no 3rd)                 G/D      Em7
But I   feel better having     screamed; don't you?
CC Piano Chord 
           DD Piano Chord 
       CC Piano Chord 
               DD Piano Chord 

They desecrated winter, nineteen seventy-nine.
CC Piano Chord 
           DD Piano Chord 
                       FF Piano Chord 
                       GG Piano Chord 

Capital collateral.  Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,
FF Piano Chord 

heartless, and labeled.  Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
GG Piano Chord 

mega ultra power dosing.  Relax.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)     C
Defense, defense, defense, defense.  Yeah,        yeah,         yeah.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.

{Outro:}

D            F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C  D
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C  D
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C  D

"This is not a revolution, I did not do the revolution, thank you"