Ignoreland (slant harp)
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How to read this tab — notation key
- +
- Blow note
- −
- Draw note
- b or '
- Half-step bend
- bb or ''
- Two half-step bend
- bbb or '''
- Three half-step bend
- (###)
- Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
- < or *
- Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)
Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.
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(These) bastards stole their power
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from the victims of the Us v. Them years,
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Wrecking all things virtuous and tru-e
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The undermining social democratic downhill slide into abysmal
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lost lamb off the precipice into the trickle down runoff pool
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They hypnotized the summer, nineteen seventy nine
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Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous,
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wicked and able, media-ready,
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Heartless, and labeled. Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
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Mega ultra power doesn't relax.
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Defense, defense, defense, defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah
CHORUS:
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, ignoreland
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Yeah, yeah, yeah
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The information nation took their clues
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from all the sound-bite gluttons
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1980, eighty four, eighty eight, ninety two too, too
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How to be what you can be, jump, jam junking your energies
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How to walk in dignity with throw up on your shoes
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They amplified the autumn, nineteen seventy nine
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Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass
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TV tells a million lies. The paper's terrified to report
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Anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon,
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I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this.
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So fuck you, man
[REPEAT CHORUS]
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If they wasn't there we would have created them. Maybe it's true,
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But I'm resentful all the same. Someone's got to take the blame
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I know that this is vitriol. No solution, spleen venting,
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But I feel better having screamed. Don't y-o-u?
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They desecrate the winter, nineteen seventy nine
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Capital collateral. Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able,
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media-ready,
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Heartless, and labeled. Super US citizen, super achiever,
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Mega ultra power doesn't relax.
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Defense, defense, defense, defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah
[REPEAT CHORUS]