Get Off The Air

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  • Intro: F# B C# (2x bass only)
     
    F# B C#
  • Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair
    F#
    Flame up the herb
  • B C#
    Woof down the beer (2x and continues on background)
     
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    (click!)
     
  • F# B C#
    Hi! I'm your video DJ
    F# B C#
  • I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
    F# B C# F# B C#
    I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go
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    F# B C#
    My job is to help destroy
  • F# B C#
    What's left of your imagination
    F# B C#
  • By feeding you endless doses
    F# B C#
    Of sugar-coated mindless garbage
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    F# B C#
    So don't create Be sedate
  • F# B C#
    Be a vegetable at home And thwack on that dial
    F# B C#
  • If we have our way even you will believe (Fun fun fun... ends)
    F#
    This is the future of rock and roll
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    (M.T.V 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
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    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 of 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 (2x)
     
  • E F#
    Get off the air
     
  • F# B A F# B A
    See the latest rejects from the muppet show
    B A
  • Wag their tits and their dicks
    B A
    As they lip-synch on screen
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    F#
    There's something I don't like
  • B A F# B A
    About a band who always smiles
    B A
  • Another tax write-off
    B D
    For some schmuck who doesn't care
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    M.T.V. Get off the air...
     
  • Get off the air
    Get off the air
    F# F E D# C#
  • Get off the air
     
     
  • (bass break - following line twice: 1st time with bass only, 2nd time with
    guitar playing chords above)
     
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    C# B C# B F# E F# E
     
  • g --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
    d --------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|2\1-----|4-4-6-4-|2\1-----|
    a 4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|----4-2-|
  • e ----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
     
     
  • (and this once)
     
     
  • C# B C# B F# E C#
     
    g --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
  • d --------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|2\1-----|4-------|--------|
    a 4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|--------|
    e ----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
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    C#m B A G# (2x trumpet or something)
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    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#m B
    "It's the new frontier," they say
    A G#
  • 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.
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    C# B
    Tin-eared
  • C# B F#
    Graph-paper brained accountants
    E F# E
  • Instead of music fans
    C# B C# B
    Call all the shots at giant record companies now
  • F# E C#
    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
    A G#
    Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?
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    C# B F#
    M.T.V. - Get off the air!
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    F#
    NOW!
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