Dead Kennedys – Lie Detector (Guitar)

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[Intro] C#5 E5 C#5 A5 C5 A5 B5 D5 B5 G#5 G5 F# F# x4 E F# x2 F# F E D# D F# [Verse 1]
           F#
We have reviewed your yellow form

         F#7                 F# G G#
Congratulations, we find you qualified

A      B        A      B     A
You've just the right capacity

    B       A       E       F#
For putting up with our nonsense

                  F#
There's just one thing you've got to prove

             F#7            F#     G  G# A
We know how you must be dishonest and lazy

     B          A
If you're so desperate

 B       A     B       A   E      F#
You actually want to work at this place
[Chorus]
            E              F#
You must be guilty - Lie detector

   E              F#
Be guilty - Lie detector

   E              F#
Be guilty - Lie detector

            F#         E          F#
Till you're proven innocent these days
[Verse 2]
                 F#
Blood pressure clamps around your arms

                F#7                F#  G   G#    A
Now don't get nervous when we yell in your face

   B          A      B               A
We know you steal, just who do you screw?

       B          A   E                F#
With what, with who, aren't you a Christian?

          F#
The polygraph, don't make it move

             F#7              F#    G  G# A
One little twitch, the anvil drops on you

       B         A   B        A
Don't matter if you told the truth

    B         A      E           F#
We want your facial egg for our file
[Chorus]
            E              F#
You must be guilty - Lie detector

   E              F#
Be guilty - Lie detector

   E              F#
Be guilty - Lie detector

            F#         E          F#
Till you're proven innocent these days

F#               E    F#
Proven innocent these days
[Bridge]
E F#
    March!
E F# F# F E D# D
F#
Ha, ha!
F#
F#                    A
Guilty - Till proven innocent

F#                   E
Guilty - It says so on your face

F#                 A
Guilty - When you try to find

F#                             E
Guilty - A place to live or a job that pays

F#                 A
Guilty - When you file a complaint

F#                                         E              G#
Guilty - Against the cop that kicked your face last night

F#                   A
Guilty - It says so on page three

F#                     E
Guilty - Who'd think a guy like me

      D           E       F#
Would plant drugs in your car?

      D                   E      F#
Break in your house while you're asleep

D         E               D           E
Open your mouth, bet your ass you're watched

         D         E       F#
And it's your word against ours
[Verse 3]
             F#
Yeah, just because we're hiring you

               F#7                F#  G  G#  A
No, that don't mean that we trust you at all

       B       A      B          A
You'll have to take a test like this

B       A     E     F#
Once or twice every week

           F#
We know machines, they make mistakes

               F#7              F#   G    G#   A
And it's your word against our dead black box

       B       A      B
The machine is always right

 A             B      A         E       F#
'Cause we know how it makes you feel so small
[Chorus]
            E              F#
You must be guilty - Lie detector

   E              F#
Be guilty - Lie detector

   E              F#
Be guilty - Lie detector

            F#         E
Till you're proven innocent

       E              F#
You're guilty - Lie detector

       E              F#
You're guilty - Lie detector

       E              F#
You're guilty - Lie detector

            F#         E           F#
Till you're proven innocent these days

F#         E          F#
Proven innocent these days

                       F#     E
'Cause when you're innocent...

                F#       E
When you're innocent...

                F#       E         F#
When you're innocent it just don't pay