Neil Young – Restless Consumer (Guitar)

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[Intro] C#m C#m A x2 [Verse 1]
C#m
  The people have heard the news

A
  The people have spoken

C#m
  You may not like what they said

A
  But they weren't jokin'
[Verse 2]
C#m
  Way out on the desert sands

A
  Lies a desperate lover

C#m
  They call her the 'Queen of Oil'

A
  So much to discover
[Chorus]
C#m
  Don't need no ad machine telling me what I need

A
  Don't need no Madison Avenue War

C#m
  Don't need no more boxes I can see covered in flags

A
  But I can't see them on TV

C#m
  Don't need no more lies

A
  Don't need no more lies

C#m
  Don't need no more lies

A
  Don't need no more lies
[Bridge]
E                Ebm
  The restless consumer flies

    D                   C#m
  Around the world each day

E                Ebm
  With such an appetite

        D         C#m  A  C#m  A
  For taste and grace
[Verse 4]
C#m
  People from around the world

A
  Need someone to listen

C#m
  We're starving and dying

              A
  From our disease we need your medicine

C#m
  How do you pay for war

                A
  And leave us dyin'?

C#m
  When you could do so much more

A
  You're not even tryin'
[Chorus]
C#m
  Don't need no TV ad telling me how sick I am

A
  Don't need to know how many people are like me

C#m
  Don't need no dizziness don't need no nausea

A
  Don't need no side effects like diarrhea or sexual death

C#m
  Don't need no more lies

A
  Don't need no more lies

C#m
  Don't need no more lies

A
  Don't need no more lies
[Bridge]
E                Ebm
  The restless consumer lies

    D             C#m
  Asleep in her hotel

E                Ebm
  With such an appetite

        D            C#m  A  C#m  A  C#m  A
  For anything that sells
[Verse 5]
C#m
  A hundred voices from a hundred lands

A
  Need someone to listen

C#m                              A
  People are starving here and there

C#m
  They don't see the world the way you do

A                                                        C#m
  There is no mission accomplished here just death to thousands

                                    A
  A hundred voices from a hundred lands cry out in unison
[Chorus]
C#m
  Don't need no terror squad don't want no damned Jihad

A
  Blowin' themselves away in my hood

C#m
  But we don't talk to them so we don't learn from them

A
  Hate don't negotiate with Good

C#m
  Don't need no more lies

A
  Don't need no more lies

C#m
  Don't need no more lies

A
  Don't need no more lies
[Bridge]
E                Ebm
  The restless consumer flies

D                       C#m
  Around the world each day

E                Ebm
  With such an appetite

         D           C#m  A  C#m  A
  For efficiency and pace
[Outro]
C#m
  Don't need no more lies

A
  Don't need no more lies

C#m
  Don't need no more lies

A                         C#m
  Don't need no more lies

A                         C#m
  Don't need no more lies