The Decline
Key: AEnglish
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Am C D...
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Verse
AmWhere are all the stupid people Dmfrom?
AmAnd Fhow'd they get to Cbe so dumb? G
CBred on purple mountain C/Brange
Feed amber waves of A#grains
To lesser human F/Abeings, zero feeFlings
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Chorus
Blame it on
HuFman nature, man's destiny (Cman's destiny)
FBlame it on the greedioCcracy (greediocracy)
Fear of Dmgod
The fear of A#change
The fear of Ftruth
CAdd the bill of rights, subtract the Fwrongs
G#There's no answers
CMemorize and sing star spangled Fsongs
G#When the questions
CAren't ever Gasked
Is anybody Amlearning from the Fpast?
We're Cliving in Gunited stagnaFtion E
Am F G E (2x)
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AmFather what have I Gdone?
I Ctook C/Bthat 2Am2
A Fgift to Cme from Gyou
To Dmbed with me each Amnight
Kept it Fclean
Polished it Cwell
CheFrished every Ccartridge, C/Bevery Fshell
AmDown, by the creek, under Fbrush, under dirt
There's a Gcarcass of my second Amkill
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AmDown, by the park, under Fstone, under pine
There's a Gcarcass of my brother AmWilliam
Brother Fwhere, have you gone to?
I swear, I never thought I Ccould
I see so many times
They told me to shoot Dmstraight
Don't pull the trigger, squeeze
That will insure a Ckill
A kill is what you want
A kill is why we Fbreed
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The DChristians love their D/C#guns
The Cchurch and NRA
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Pray for Dtheir salvaD/C#tions
Prey on Cthe lower Gfaiths
D G D G D
EThe story book's been E/D#read
And every line Dbelieved
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ECurriculum's been E/D#set
Logic is a Dthreat
Reason searched and seiAzed
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E E7 A Am (2x)
E E B A
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Verse
EJerry spent some time in MichiAgan Am
A Etwenty year vaC#mcation, after F#mall he had a Bdime
A Edime is worth a E/D#lot more in DeC#mtroit B
A Adime in CaliEfornia, a Atwenty dollar Bfine
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E C#m A B
EJerry only stayed a couple Amonths Am
EIt's hard to enC#mjoy yourself while F#mbleeding out the Bass
EAsphyxiation E/D#is simple and C#mfast B
AIt beats sevenEteen fun years of Abeing someone's Bbitch
Don't Ethink (stay)
Drink your Dwine (home)
Watch the fire D/C#burn (be)
His problem's not Amine (safe)
Just be that model citiEzen
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EI wish I had a schilling E7
For every senseless Akilling
I'd Ambuy a government
EAmerica's for sale E7
And you can get a good deal Aon it
AmAnd make a healthy profit
Or Emaybe, tear it aCpart
AmStart with assumpEtion
EThat a million people are Csmart
AmSmarter than one
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EmSerotonin's Bgone
She gave up, Cdrifted away G
EmSara Dfled, thought process D/C#gone
CShe left her Danswering machine Gon
EmThe greeting Dleft spoken sinD/C#cere
CMessages Dno one will ever Ghear
AmTen thousand Cmessages a Gday
A million Dmore transmissions Amlay
Victims Cof the laissez Gfaire
AmTen thousand Cvoices, a hundred Gguns
A hundred Ddecibels turns to Amone
One Cbullet, one empty Ghead
EmNow with serotonin Dgone
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CThe man who used to speak
PerEforms a cute routine
DFeel a little patroD/C#nized
Don't feel Cbad
They found a way inside your Ghead
And you feel a bit misDled
It's not that they don't Amcare, yeah
The teClevision's put a Ethought inside your head
DLike a Barry ManiD/C#low, jingle
I'd Clike, to teach the world to Gsing
In perfect harmoDny
A symphonic blank Amstare, yeah
CIt doesn't make you Ecare (make you care)
CNot designed to make you Ecare (make you care)
CThey're betting you won't Ecare (you won't...)
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C B Am G Em
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Chorus
CPlace a Gwager Don your Emgreed
A waCger Emon your Dpride
CWhy Gtry to Dbeat them Emwhen, a Cmillion Emothers Dtried?
CWe are the Emwhore
GIntellectually Dspayed
CWe are the Emqueer
GDysfunctionally Draised
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E G#m
One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
EOne more pill to kill the Cpain
DLiving through conAformity
E G#m
E G#m
One more prayer to keep me safe
One more prayer to keep us warm
EOne more prayer to keep us Csafe
DThere's gonna be a Abetter place
E B D
ALost the battle, lost the Ewar
Lost the things worth living Bmfor
Lost the will to win the Dfight
One more pill to kill the pain
ANa na na na na
F#mLa na na na na
DNa na na na na
ENa na na na na
AThe going get tough, the tough get debt
F#mDon't pay attention, pay the rent
DNext of kins pay for your sins
EA little faith should keep us Asafe
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Save us
CThe human, existence
EIs failing, resistance
DmEssential, the future
FWritten off, the odds are
CAstronomically against us
EOnly moron and genius
DmWould fight a losing battle
FAgainst the super ego
CWhen giving in is so damn comforEting
And so we Dmgo, on with our Flives
We know the Ctruth, but prefer Elies
Lies are Amsimple, simple is Cbliss
Why Dmgo against tradition when we Fcan
Admit deCfeat, live in deEcline
AmBe the victim of our own deFsign
The status Dmquo, built on susFpect
CWhy would aC/Bnyone stick out their Amneck?
Fellow memFbers
Club "we've got Gours"
I'd Clike to introC/Bduce you to our Amhost
He's got Fhis, and I've got Fmmine
Meet the deCcline
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Chorus
We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war
We are worker
We love our queen
We sacrifice
We're Soylent Green
We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war
Em C D G D/F#
F#m D E A A/G#