Bad Religion – Against The Grain (Guitar)

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As recorded by Bad Religion (From the 1990 Album AGAINST THE GRAIN) [Intro] C5 E5 C5 E5 [Verse 1]
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Three thousand miles of wilderness, overcome by the flow

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A lonely restitution of pavement, pomp and show

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I seek a thousand answers, I find but one or two

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I maintain no discomfiture, my path again renewed
[Chorus]
E5                C5
Against the grain

E5                     C5
That's where I'll stay

E5
Swimming upstream

C5                     E5     C5 E5
I maintain against the grain
[Verse 2]
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Here labeled as lunatic, sequestered and content

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There ignored and defeated by the government

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There's an oriented public whose magnetic force does pull

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But away from the potential of the individual
[Chorus]
E5                C5
Against the grain

E5                     C5
That's where I'll stay

E5
Swimming upstream

C5                     E5    C5 E5
I maintain against the grain
[Verse 3]
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The flow is getting stronger with smaller increments of time

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And eddies of new ideas are increasingly hard to find

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You need all that the other has, it's your right to seize the day

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But in all your acquisitions you will soon be swept away
[Chorus]
E5                C5
Against the grain

E5                     C5
That's where I'll stay

E5
Swimming upstream

C5                     E5    C5 E5
I maintain against the grain
[Verse 4]
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There's a common consensus and an uncomfortable cheer

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A reverberating chorus that anyone can hear

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It sings, "leave your cares behind you, just grab tenaciously"

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This lulling sense or purpose will destroy us rapidly
[Chorus]
E5                C5
Against the grain

E5                     C5
That's where I'll stay

E5
Swimming upstream

C5                     E5    C5 E5
I maintain against the grain
[Outro]
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Against the grain

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Against the grain

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Against the grain