NOFX – Idiots Are Taking Over (Guitar)

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[Intro] A [Verse 1]
F#m                             D
 It's not the right time to be sober

A                   B/D#
Now the idiots have taken over

D                        Bm                  A
 Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

F#m                  D
 Mensa membership conceding

A                               B/D#
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding?

D                       Bm                          A
 Watson, it's really elementary, the industrial revolution

                             F#m
Has flipped the bitch on evolution

      D                           Dm                           A
The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer

                        F#m
The world keeps getting dumber

                  F           D                           A
Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason
[Verse 2]
F#m                          D
Darwin's rolling over in his coffin

    A                               B/D#
The fittest are surviving much less often

    D                        Bm                A
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening

F#m                              D
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool

    A                        B/D#                           D
Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule

                           Bm                A
And I'm starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston

                      F#m
Stranded on a primate planet

                         D                          Dm                            A                    
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground, with generals and the armies that obeyed them

A                    F#m    
 Followers following fables

                   F                            D
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard
[Interlude] A [Bridge]
F#m                                                    D
 There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated

F#m                                                          D
 Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred

A                                         F#m
 Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions

              A
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand 
[Verse 3]
          F#m                  D
Biggest solutions. What are we left with?

  A                     B/D#            D
A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists

                    Bm                   A
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland

           F#m
Pass on traditions

                   F
How to get ahead religions

        D                    A
And prosperity via simpleton culture
[Outro]
                      F     D                       A
The idiots are taking over,   the idiots are taking over

                      F     D                       A
The idiots are taking over,   the idiots are taking over

                      F     D                       A
The idiots are taking over,   the idiots are taking over

                      F     D                       A
The idiots are taking over,   the idiots are taking over