Intro:

Dm A Dm C A
Dm A Dm C A

Dm                                          A
well i'm afraid that the circles i've been drinking myself
                                      Dm           C         A
aren't big enough for the vowels that i try to fit inside of them
Dm
when i was young i drank too much
            A                                                     Dm
and i'd be lying if i said i didn't feel so goddamn young tonight
          C                         A
maybe too young to ask what's on my mind
A#                      Dm
like if freedom means doing what you want well
A                    Dm
don't you gotta want something
A#                             Dm                                 A
and won't you tell me that we want something more than just more beer

and my friends if that ain't true won't you lie to me tonight Oh yeah

(Fast part) Am G E F x3, strum Am once then muted strumming

Dm                                 A
well i've been listening to minor threat records all day

and shit if i do not know every word
Dm     C              A
i sing along as i tie off
Dm                                      A
and ian screams he's “out of step” as i throw the cotton into the spoon draw up into
the syringe
Dm                     C                   A
i'll know just what he means until i hit a vein
A#                Dm                        A                               Dm
but after that i won't have to bother with knowing who i am for a while at least
A#                     Dm
in a moment the whole world is gonna melt around me
A
and i'll swear i don't miss it as a i lie to you tonight
F            A                 Dm           A#
because i'm afraid to look the world in the eye
F            A                  Dm               A#
if nothing's gonna change well then i'd rather die
F                         A
and i'm too unemployed to organize a union
    Dm              A#
i'm too intoxicated to tear down a building
F                   A
i'm too hopeless to look for a solution
    Dm
i'm afraid that if i found one
    A#                         F
i'd be out of excuses for the way i waste away
       A                         Dm                        A#
in the gutters that i chose like fashion accessories to go with my dirty clothes
  F                                 A                              Dm
i haven't bathed in months but you know it's not because i've been fighting bourgeois morals
          A#
i'm just lazy and i'm young

Dm                                  A
i've seen the best minds of my generation dying drunk or high from the rooftops to the
parking lots
Dm                   C                  A
stomped to death in west philadelphian squats
Dm                                          A
they've got me waiting on a day when we can say “fuck the police ” with a little bit of integrity
Dm                       C                            A
when it will mean “i've got your back if you've got mine ”
A#                     Dm                    A               Dm
give me a scene where i believe in more than bad hair cuts guilt and misery
A#                                    Dm
i don't know where i fit between the vegans and the nihilists
A
that might be the first thing i've said that wasn't a lie tonight
F                        A                         Dm              A#
because there's gotta be something more than lying in the front yard naked screaming
at the constellations
F                             A                     Dm                    A#
i want something more than an apology to say when i look the world in the eye
                    F                                 A
i'll tell you man my friend william came to me with a message of hope
      Dm                          A#
it went “fuck you and everything that you think you know
   F                          A                                                        Dm      A#
if you don't step outside the things that you believe they're gonna kill you ”
          F                                           A                               Dm
he said “no one's gonna stop you from dying young and miserable and right
                          A#
but if you want something better you gotta put that shit aside ”
F                       A                        Dm                 A#
i thought about how for thousands of years there have been people who told us that
things can't go on like this
F                       A
from jesus chris to the diggers
                Dm
from malthus to zerzan
                 A#
from karl marx to huey newton
                  F             A             Dm            A#
but the shit goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on


C                        A#
now i'm not saying that we can't change the world
        F         C               Dm             A#
because everybody does at least a little bit of that
   Dm            A           A#                      F
but i won't shit myself the way i'm living is a temper tantrum
     D                     A                    A#            C
and i need something else need something else need something else to stay alive


 Jam: F  A  Dm  A#  F  A  Dm  C  A#  A  F  G


A#                       Dm                      A                               Dm
and on the night that i play my last show i'll be singing so loud that my heart explodes
A#                        Dm                      A
and i'll be singing and i'll be singing we are free
A#            Dm                      A                        Dm
oh but won't you promise me that we won't ever forget what the means
A#                   Dm                    A
i know it's hard to give a shit sometimes but promise me we'll always try
A#                     Dm                          A
because i don't wanna hate you and i don't wanna hate me
A#           Dm                 A
and i don't wanna have to hate everything anymore