Dead Kennedys – Chickenshit Conformist (Guitar)

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Punk's not dead, it just deserves to die

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When it becomes another stale cartoon

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A closed-minded, self-centered social club

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Ideas don't matter, it's who you know

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If the music's gotten boring, it's because of the people

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Who want everyone to sound the same

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Who drive the bright people out of our so-called scene

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'til all that's left is just a meaningless fad

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Hardcore formulas are dogshit

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Change and caring are what's real

   E                    A  D
Is this a state of mind

   E                   A  D
Or just another label?

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The joy and hope of an alternative

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Has become its own cliché

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A hairstyle's not a lifestyle

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Imagine Sid Vicious at thirty-five

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Who needs a scene? Scared to love and to feel

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Judging everything by loud, fast rules' appeal

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Who played last night? "I don't know, I forgot

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But diving off the stage was a lot of fun"

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So eager to please peer pressure decrees

   E                    A            D
So eager to please peer pressure decrees

         E                   A          D
Make the same old mistakes, again and again

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Chickenshit conformist like your parents

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What's ripped us apart even more than drugs

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Are the thieves and the goddamn liars

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Ripping people off when they share their stuff

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When someone falls, are there any friends?

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Harder-core-than-thou for a year or two

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Then it's time to get a real job

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Others stay home, it's no fun to go out

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When the gigs are wrecked by gangs and thugs

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When the thugs form bands, look who gets record deals

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From New York metal labels looking to scam

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Who sign the most racist queer-bashing bands they can find

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To make a buck revving kids up for war

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Walk tall, act small

        E                      A  D
Only as tough as gang approval

E                 A  D
Unity is bullshit

          E                        A  D
When it's under someone's fat boot

E                         A  D
Where's the common cause?

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Too many factions safely sulk in their shells

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"Agree with us on everything or we won't help with anything"

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That kind of attitude just makes a split grow wider

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Guess who's laughing while the world explodes?

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When we're all crybabies who fight best among ourselves

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So eager to please peer pressure decrees

   E                    A            D
So eager to please peer pressure decrees

         E                   A          D
Make the same old mistakes, again and again

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Chickenshit conformist like your parents

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That farty, old rock-and-roll attitude's back

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"It's competition, man, we wanna break big"

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Who needs friends when the money's good?

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That's right, the Seventies are back

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Cock-rock metal's like a bad laxative

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   It just don't move me, ya know?

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The music's okay when there's more ideas than solos

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Do we really need the attitude, too?

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Shedding thin skin too quickly

     E                      A  D
As a fan, it disappoints me

          E                     A  D
Same old, stupid, sexist lyrics

      E                           A  D
Or is Satan all you can think of?

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"Crossover" is just another word for lack of ideas

E                           A                D
Maybe what we need are more trolls under the bridge

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Will the metalheads finally learn something?

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Or will the punks throw away their education?

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No one's ever the best once they believe their own press

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"Maturing" don't mean rehashing mistakes of the past

   E                    A            D
So eager to please peer pressure decrees

   E                    A            D
So eager to please peer pressure decrees

         E                   A          D
Make the same old mistakes, again and again

D              G                    E
Chickenshit conformist like your parents

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The more things change, the more they stay the same

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We can't grow when we won't criticize ourselves

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The '60s weren't all failure, it's the '70s that stunk

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As the clock ticks, we dig the same hole

      C                 A                    D          A
Music scenes ain't real life, they won't get rid of the bomb

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Won't eliminate rape or bring down the banks

    C            A                 D        A
Any kind of real change takes more time and work

              C             A  D   A
Than changing channels on a TV set

                  C        A           D            A
So, why are we so eager to please peer pressure decrees?

   C        A           D            A
So eager to please peer pressure decrees

         C           A       D         A
Make the same old mistakes, again and again

C              F                   D
Chickenshit conformist like your parents