Transcription by Jean Francois Lambert, jfl@hypershell.qc.ca.
Riff 1: G D A A# D A# F C F Riff 2: G A A# C Riff 3: D F C F Intro: Let ring G then Riff1 X4 then Riff2 X2 Riff 3 The framework of the world, is black and white The infrastructure builders, flex their might Turning true emotion into digital expression One by one we all fall down -> Riff 1 X1 Riff 2 The gray race shrivels, trapped inside the world it creates, it's black and white The gray race shrivels, trapped inside the world it creates, it's black and white Riff 3 The perpetual destructive motion machine Began to chart a course never before seen Turning raw compassion into fields of plus and minus One by one we all give in -> Riff 3 x2 during solo Riff 2 The gray race shrivels, trapped inside the world it creates, it's black and white The gray race shrivels, trapped inside the world it creates, it's black and white -> Riff 3 X2 (slower) Riff 2 (slower) I'd swear there were times, when I was someone else A person with determination and knowledge of the self But you flattened me to rubble and now I can see That I'm just a faded negative of the image I used to be Riff 2 (faster) ..just a shadow, and that's our dilemma! Riff 1 X4 End with a G
Transcription by Jody Beaulac, beaulac@concord5.powersoft.com.
[Rhythm 1: D C G A#]
[Rhythm 2: D C G]
F
F
(w/ rhythm 1 2x)
I'm going for a walk, not the after-dinner kind
I'm gonna use my hands and I'm gonna use my mind
(w/ rhythm 2 4x)
And who the hell are you to tell me what to do?
You can't even tie your own haggard shoes
E F
Your closet is a mess, your backyard's falling down
G A A(low)
And I have no grand ideas or intentions of sticking around
(w/ rhythm 1 4x)
So I'm going for a walk, not the after-dinner kind
I'm gonna use my hands and I'm gonna use my mind
And I'm gonna build a world independent and exempt
All alone I'll be an empire with no mortgage and no rent
(w/ rhythm 2 4x)
And I don't need to live in your stinking zoo
You can't even feed the animals donated to you
E F
Your storage sheds are ramshackled, flies decorate the walls
G A A(low)
And you expect me to die here in this shit-filled tiny stall?
F F
So I'm going for a walk!
(solo)
E----------------------------------------------
B-6-6-6-5-----------6-------6------------------
G---------7^5-7---5---5---5---5-4---4-5-4-2----
D----------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------
B-6-6-6-6-5--6-5-6-5-6-5--6-5-----5---6-6------
G-----------------------------5-7---7----------
D----------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------
(w/ rhythm 2)
And I know you're watching everything I do
Call me threat to your children, call me socially unglued
Call me master of insanity, unable to relate
Call me lazy, bane, and filthy
Call me montrous reprobate
A
(w/ rhythm 1)
So I'm going for a walk and there's nothing you can do
Because I don't have to live like you
I'm going for a walk, going for a walk....
Transcription by Jody Beaulac, beaulac@concord5.powersoft.com.
Intro: 4x
E----8-------8-------8----
B-------8-------8---------
G-8-------8-------8-------
D-------------------------
A-------------------------
E-------------------------
D
(Rhythm 1): 2x
C A# C A# G# F
(Rhythm 2): 2x w/ lyrics
C A# C A# G# F
C A# C A# G# D# A#
Sleeping on a time bomb, staring into space
There's an ocean of unpleasentries we are not prepared to face
Sitting on the fence post to watch the storm roll in
And terrified of the damage it will bring when it begins
C D# A#
It will begin
(Rhythm 3) 4x w/ lyrics:
C A# F
Splintered dreams of unity, our lives are parallel
So far from reality, our lives are parallel
Independent trajectories, our lives are parallel
Separate terms of equality, our lives are parallel
(Chorus Rhythm) 4x w/ lyrics:
C xx C G xx G G# G xxx
Our lives are parallel
A#
(Rhythm 1)
(Rhythm 2 w/ lyrics)
Is there no redemption, no common good?
Is there nothing we can do for ourselves, or only what we should?
Comes the hard admission of what we don't provide
Goes the insistence on the ways and means that so divide
C D# A#
They so divide
(Rhythm 3 w/ lyrics)
Side by side suffering loneliness, our lives are parallel
Phony collective progress, our lives are parallel
Accepting that it's all such a mess, our lives are parallel
Gesturing without hope of redress, our lives are parallel
(Chorus rhythm w/ lyrics)
Our lives are parallel
G# A# B
Forging little plays of deception and pain
G# A# B
As we watch our foundations crumble away
G# A# B F#
Staggering like birds against a hurricane
B G# D# A#
And trying all the while to stay out of each others way
C A# G# G (4x)
(w/ Rhythm 3)
Broken dreams of unity, our lives are parallel
Independent trajectories, our lives are parallel
Screaming out for understanding, our lives are parallel
Turning inward and suffering, our lives are parallel
(w/ Chorus Rhythm)
Parallel, parallel
Our lives are parallel
Our lives are parallel
Parallel
Our lives are parallel
Transcription by Jody Beaulac, beaulac@concord5.powersoft.com.
C# E B G# (2x)
C# E B F#
Have you been to the desert, have you walked with the dead?
C# E B G#
There's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread
A E
And the figures don't lie they speak of human disease
B E B
But we do what we want and we think what we please
C# E B F#
Have you lived the experience, Have you witnessed the plague?
C# E B G#
People making babies sometimes just to escape
A E
In this land of competition the compassion is gone
B E B
Yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on
E B
Keep pushing on
C# A E B
This is just a punk rock song
C# A E G#
Written for the people who can see something's wrong
A E
Like ants in a colony we do our share
B
But there's so many other fuckin' insects out there
C# A E B
This is just a punk rock song
C# E B G#
C# E B G#
(continue w/ lyrics)
Have you visited the quagmire, have you swam in the shit?
The party conventions and the real politik
The faces always different, the rhetoric the same
But we swallow it all and we see nothing changed
Nothing has changed
This is just a punk rock song
Written for the people who can see something's wrong
Like workers in a factory, we do our share
But there's so many other fucking robots out there
This is just a punk rock song
C# E B F#
10 million dollars on a losing campaign
C# E B F#
20 million starving and writhing in pain
C# E B F#
Big strong people unwilling to give
C# E B B
Small in vision and perspective
One in five kids below the poverty line
One population runnin' out of time
Runnin' outta time
This is just a punk rock song
Written for the people who can see something's wrong
Like ants in a colony, we do our share
But there's so many other fucking insects out there
This is just a punk rock song
Transcription by Jody Beaulac, beaulac@concord5.powersoft.com.
Intro:
E--------------------------
B--------------------------
G--5-----------------------
D--5--5--7--2--------------
A--3--5--7--2---8-7-5-3----
E-----3--5--0-----------3--
C B A G F G
Everywhere you look there was confusion, violence, drama & drugs
C B A G F
So many righteous revolutionaries spouting Utopian love
E A
Everyone shrouded in a purple haze
E A
Then one day they woke up from their dream state
B C
They found themselves no more at peace than before
D
older, meek, and conformed
C G A E F D
Empty causes, a bluster for the soul, a fix for the mind
C G A E F G C G
Empty causes, cling to everything you find
C B A G F G
The shots rang out like popcorn and the chief was hid and rushed out of sight
C B A G F
The mohawk-chain, leather brigade rejoiced maliciously on that night
E A
Someone cried out "fuck the government"
E A
His mates couldn't define what he meant
B C D
So no one gave him the time of day and the scene died away
C G A E F D
Empty causes, a war for the body and an army in the mind
C G A E F G C
Empty causes, losing steam as time goes by
F G C B A
Could it be that everybody selfishly desires
A F C
Their own personal retinue
F G C B A
And the causes are just manifestations of too much time
F D
And far too little to do
Transcription by Jody Beaulac, beaulac@concord5.powersoft.com.
Rhythm 1: (4x)
F# F#(high) D
F# G# A
Rhythm 2: F# F#(high) D F# G# A F# F#(high) D B B/C# G# A
(w/ Rhythm 2) 2x:
Hey Mister, don't point at me
You shout rhetoric nonsense like a Pavlovian model
Responding to his questions
Hey teacher, arrogance is bliss
You spend your time turning water into life
As if you were God's forman
(chorus)
A E F# A A F#
Is it any wonder things seem so awry?
A E F# B C#/B
We swim in a sea of confusion and don't have to think to survive
So nobody listens
Rhythm 1: 2x
(w/ Rhythm 2) 2x:
Hey recluse, don't shout at me
You proclaim yourself expert by extensions of methods
Detailed in your magazines
Hey downer, don't pray on me
We've all got bum raps that torment us day to day
That we hoist on our own shoulders
(w/ chorus rhythm)
Is it any wonde people pass you by?
Your plea for understanding is heard as desperate lies
So nobody listens
(w/ rhythm 1)
I can't help you
I can't help you
I can't help you
I can't help you, now
D A F# D A F#
Is it any wonder things are so inane?
D A F#
So many quests for compassion
B B/C#
Are just for someone's personal gain
So nobody listens
Rhythm 1: 2x
Nobody listens to you
Transcription by Jody Beaulac, beaulac@concord5.powersoft.com.
E D D G G A A
E E D D G G A A B
E D G A
There's a boy in chrimson rags with a grimace and a spoon
E D A B
And a little sullen girl face-up staring at the moon
E D G C
And there's no one around to hear the lonesome cry
D
Then they pass away alone into the night
E B C D E
Why do we pity the dead?
E B C D A
Are you churned by emotion from the voices in your head
E C G D
Look at all the living and you'll ask yourself why
E G D
Oh why do we pity the dead?
E E D D G G A A
E E D D A A B B
E D G A
Well you've seen the disease, suffering, and decay
E D A B
And you whisper to yourself blissfully "It's okay"
E D G C
And you still refuse the possibility
D
That the dead are better off than we
E B C D E
Why do we pity the dead?
E B C D A
Are you churned by emotion from the voices in your head
E C G D
Look at all the living and you'll ask yourself why
E G D C D E
Oh why do we pity the dead? Pity the dead
C D E C D E
Tell me what you see, tell me what you know
G D
Is there anyone who lives a painless life?
C D E
If there is, show me so
E E E E(high) E E E D
The destitude and famished, demonic and the banished
E E E E(high) E E E D
Dejected and the ostracized, the brainwashed and the paralyzed
E C G D
The conquered and objectified, the few who see the other side
C D E
Tell me what you see
G D C D E
It's a mortal wretched cacophony
Transcription by Jody Beaulac, beaulac@concord5.powersoft.com.
Rhythm 1: E------------------------------------------------- B--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-- G--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-- D------------------------------------------------- A------------------------------------------------- E------------------------------------------------- (w/ rhythm 1) Shed a tear for the criminal, give him something to believe Light a fire for the miserable, give the darkness some meaning C G Closed wounds harbor pestilence when you lick them from within Charity has a redolence chastidy cannot rescind C G chorus rhythm: F C G D C G Spirit shine, it's a sign, of a tortured mind F C G D A# C D A# C Spirit shine all the time can render you blind rhythm 2: D F D A# C (4x) (w/ rhythm 2) You can take it all to heart or throw it all away You can give until you're dry and sucked of all your gleam You can fake another cry and compromise your dream (w/ rhythm 1) Cling tight to the parable, let it dominate your life Create a god who's infallible, give your leader some respite Clouds wounds harbor pestilence, when you lick them from within Rosy smiles lose their radience when you take it on the chin (chorus) D
Transcription by Jody Beaulac, beaulac@concord5.powersoft.com.
Intro: (4x)
E---------------------
B---------7^9-9-9-----
G--9-9-9-----------7^-
D---------------------
A---------------------
E---------------------
Rythm 1: (2x)
E C
(w/ rythm 1)
Desolate and without purpose
Radiating from so many septic sources
Forming the fabric of a wayward people
Disappearing as the vestiges of our past
Scratched like tartan into virgin soil
A substrate for progress and disarray
A spreading network of broken dreams
Searching for a thoroughfare to take us away
(chorus rythm)
E B C D A
Just a little tale from the streets of America
E B C D A
Sparkled promises paved with pathos and hysteria
E G D
Trenchant, weary native sons
E B C A D
Step back, step back and see the damage done
C G D C D
Meander to the horizon, the streets of America
(w/ rythm 1 but w/o the Intro)
Black, tarred concrete, pine for me
Lying dormant for you and your country
Hardened surface cracked within
Catch the sweat from off of the chin
Of men and women, senior and child
Who look to you and your sterile miles
And in there stares is bald dismay
For what you promised led them astray
(w/ chorus rythm)
Just a little tale from the streets of America
Sparkled promises paved with pathos and hysteria
Trenchant, weary native sons
Step back, step back and see the damage done
Meander to the horizon, the streets of America
C G D E
Hard-cracked, daunting, lifeless veins
C G D C D E
False hope corridors to greener pastures is all that remains
Transcription by Jean Francois Lambert, jfl@hypershell.qc.ca.
C D X4
C D C D A# G C A
Parched, cracked mouths, empty swollen guts
Sun-Baked pavement encroaches on us
Haves and have-nots together at last
Brutally engaged in mortal kombat
A# F C D A# F A
10 in 2010, 10 in 2010
C D C D
What kind of God orchestrates such a thing
A# G C A (maybe C#, but not every times)
10 in 2010
Ten billion people, all suffering
10 in 2010
Truth is not an issue, just hungry mouths to feed
10 in 2010
Forget what you want, scrounge the things you need
A# F D C A# G A
Ten in twenty-ten, ten in twenty-ten
C D C D A# G C A X2 } During
A# F A } Solo
Happy and content, it can`t happen to you
10 in 2010
Fifteen years we`ll think of a solution
10 in 2010
It wont just appear in one day
10 in 2010
For ten in twenty-ten, we`re well on our way
10 in 2010
Like piercing ear darts, I heard the news today
10 in 2010
10 billion people, coming your way
A# F C A A# F C A A# F C A D
Ten in twenty, ten in twenty, ten in twenty-ten!
Transcription by Kevin Friel, rbp@capitalnet.com.
I keep humming this one, so I got off my duff and tabbed it.
As usual, send any comments or corrections to rbp@capitalnet.com
Oh yeah, and I didn't get the solo. :)
[Intro]
G D A D [x2]
A G D
The smell of virgin pages wafted through the swinging doors
A G D
And the croaking speech he'd heard from countless councelors before
B G
They said "we all care for you, we know how you suffer
A
But I know you can succeed, I used to have it so much rougher"
G D A D
There's hope in the words and emotion in the eyes
G D A D
It's so easy to be mislead by the savvy gentle guise
G D A B
And like fools we trust the delivery
G D A D
But it's all just drunk sincerity
G D A D
It's all just drunk sincerity
A G D
In maternal family assembly poised regarding the blue tube
A G D
The numbers crept up higher and the hawks stayed out of view
B G
Then the generals said "we don't want our boys dead
A
Your sons and your husbands will be coming back heroes soon"
G D A D
There's hope in the words and emotion in the eyes
G D A D
It's so easy to be mislead by the savvy gentle guise
G D A B
And like fools we trust the delivery
G D A D
But it's all just drunk sincerity
G D A D
It's all just drunk sincerity
A G D
With steam, heat, and rythym in the back seat of the car
A G D
And adolescent perspective projecting life's forecast to the stars
B G
You heard love from the lips and you were rapt by the hips
A
And the promise was eternal but you couldn't see that far
G D A D
There's hope in the words and emotion in the eyes
G D A D
It's so easy to be mislead by the savvy gentle guise
G D A B
And like fools we trust the delivery
G D A D
But it's all just drunk sincerity
G D A D
It's all just drunk sincerity
Transcription by Jody Beaulac, beaulac@concord5.powersoft.com.
Rhythm 1:
E C G A E
(w/ Rhythm 1)
So you say you gotta know why the world goes around
And you can't find the truth in the things you've found
And you're scared shitless 'cause evil abounds
Come join us
Well I heard you were looking for a place to fit in
Full of adherent people with the same objective
A family to cling to and call brethren
Come join us
G D E E E E
All we want to do is change your mind
G D B
All you need to do is close your eyes
E C
Come join us
E G D
Come join us
E C B
Come join us
(w/ Rhythm 1)
Don't you see all the trouble that most people are in
And that they just want you for their own advantage
But I swear to you we're different from all of them
Come join us
I can tell you were looking for a way to live
Where truth is determined by consensus
Full of codified arbitrary directives
Come join us
G D E E E E
All we want to have is your small mind
G D B
Turn it into one of our kind
E C
You can go through life adrift and alone
G D
Desperate, desolate, on your own
E C B
But we're looking for a few more stalwert clones
E C
Come join us
E G D
Come join us
E C D
Come join us
(w/ Rhythm 1)
We've got spite and dedication as a vehement brew
The world hates us, well we hate them too
But you're exempted of course if you
Come join us
Independent, self-contented, revolutionary
Intellectual, brave, strong, and scholarly
If you're not one of them, you're us already
E C
Come join us
E G D
Come join us
E C D
Come join us
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Come Join Us
Transcription by Daniel Hedenstroem, dhe0630@ba.ssdn.Skelleftea.SE
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[Acustic]
E
So you say you gotta know why the world goes 'round
E
And you can't find the truth in the things you've found
G D
And you're scared shitless 'cuz evil abounds
E
Come join us
[Distortion]
Well I heard you were looking for a place to fit in
Full of adherent people with the same objective
A family to cling to and call brethren
Come join us
G D E
All we want to do is change your mind
G D B
All you need to do is close your eyes
E C
So come join us
E G D
Come join us
E C B
Come join us
Don't you see all the trouble that most people are in
And that they just want you for their own advantage
But I swear to you we're different from all of them
Come join us
I can tell you're looking for a way to live
Where truth is determined by consensus
Full of codified arbitrary directives
Come join us
All we want to have is your small mind
Turn it into one of our own kind
E C
You can go through life adrift and alone
G D
Desperate, desolate, on your own
E C G B
But we're looking for a few more stalwart clones
So come join us
Come join us
Come join us
We've got spite and dedication as a vehement brew
The world hate us, well we hate them too
But you're exempted of course if you
Come join us
Independent, self-contended, revolutionary
Intellectual, brave, strong and scholary
If you're not one of them, you're us already so
Come join us
Title: Hooray For Me Group: Bad Religion Album: Stranger Than Fiction Written By: Bad Religion Transcribed By: Dustin Nulf
The Three Main Riffs:
(all chords are power chords, and all E's are Hi {7th fret A string})
I. E D# C# B E F# F# (both F#'s are played Hi {9th fret A string})
II. B C# D# E B C# F# F# (both F#'s are low {2nd fret E string})
III. E B F# B E B F# F# (both F#'s are Hi)
There is a variation on Riff II that is played, it is represented by (v): (v)= B C# D# E B C# D# F# F# (F#'s are low)
Here is the Formula:
I (V) II III
I II II(/) III
I III(*) III III(s) III III end on a B.
/= Pick scrapes played here. *= The F#'s in the last two measures are low instead of Hi. s= The solo is played here.
There you have it!!!
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Cease
Transcription by Evan Hulka, evahulk@nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us
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B A G F#
Flat top pave-ment com-fort me
B A G F#
Like a chemical reaction or a steamroller, spreading randomly
B A G F#
There's a distant fuzz of a frequency
B A G F#
It tickles my ears, rustles under my feet
B A G F#
And it shakes the leaves off of every tree
G A F#
Vio-lent-ly
B A G
What pretension everlasting peace
A B
Everything must cease
(same chords as before)
In-sti-tu-tion on the hill
Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor to ignite the people's will
There's a shadow stain on the west facade
It is spread like decay to enshroud the fraud
And the decent folks find it oh so odd
Oh so odd
What protection everlasting peace
Everything must cease
(pluck 6th string only -- this part is slow)
B A G F#
Brave me-mo-rials hewn white stone
B A G F#
Like the comforting caress of a mother or a friend you've always known
(strum from here -- resumes normal Bad Religion tempo)
B A G F#
It evokes such pain and significance
B A G F#
What was once is reduced to remembrance
B A G F#
And the generations pass without recompense
G A F#
Aa-aaaa-hhh...
B A G
What protection everlasting peace
A B
Everything must cease