Intro:  F#5    B5  C#5  (2x bass only)
 
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Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair
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Flame up the herb
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Woof down the beer  (2x and continues on background)
 
 
(click!)
 
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Hi! I'm your video DJ
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I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
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I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go
 
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My job is to help destroy
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What's left of your imagination
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By feeding you endless doses
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Of sugar-coated mindless garbage
 
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So don't create Be sedate
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Be a vegetable at home And thwack on that dial
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If we have our way even you will believe  (Fun fun fun... ends)
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This is the future of rock and roll
 
(M.T.V GET OFF THE AIR!)
 
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How far will you go
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How low will you stoop
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To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill
 
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You've turned rock and roll rebellion
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Into Pat Boone sedation
B5           A5              B5           D5
Making sure nothing's left of the imagination
 
   C#5     B5
   M.T.V. Get off the
   C#5     B5
   M.T.V. Get off the
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   M.T.V. Get off the air  (2x)
 
          E5           F#5
          Get off the air
 
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See the latest rejects     from the muppet show
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Wag their tits and their dicks
        B5            A5
As they lip-synch on screen
 
        F#5
There's something I don't like
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About a band who always smiles
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Another tax write-off
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For some schmuck who doesn't care
 
  M.T.V. Get off the air...
 
         Get off the air 
         Get off the air 
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         Get off the air 
 
 
(bass break - following line twice: 1st time with bass only, 2nd time with
 guitar playing chords above)
 
 
  C#5       B5        C#5       B5        F#5       E5        F#5       E5   
  
g -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | 
d -------- | ----1--- | ----3--- | -------- | 4-----4- | 2
----- | 4-4-6-4- | 2
----- |  
a 4-4---4- | 2-2---2- | 4-4---4- | 2---4-24 | ----4--- | ----4-2- | -------- | ----4-2- | 
e ----4--- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | 
 
 
(and this once)
 
 
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g -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | 
d -------- | ----1--- | ----3--- | -------- | 4-----4- | 2
----- | 4------- | -------- |  
a 4-4---4- | 2-2---2- | 4-4---4- | 2---4-24 | ----4--- | ----4-2- | -------- | -------- | 
e ----4--- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | 
 
 
C#5  B5  A5  Ab5   (2x trumpet or something)
 
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And so it was
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Our beloved corporate gods
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Claimed they created rock video
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Allowing it to sink as low in one year
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As commercial TV has in 25
 
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"It's the new frontier," they say
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It's wide open, anything can happen
    C#5
But you've got a lot of nerve
            B5
To call yourself a pioneer
                A5
When you're too god-damn conservative
        Ab5
To take real chances.
 
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Tin-eared   
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Graph-paper brained accountants
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Instead of music fans
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Call all the shots at giant record companies now
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The lowest common denominator rules
 
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Forget honesty
B5
Forget creativity
    A5
The dumbest buy the mostest
           Ab5
That's the name of the game
 
    C#5
But sales are slumping
    B5
And no one will say why
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Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?
 
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M.T.V. - Get off the air!
 
F#5
NOW!