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Beaten Generation - The The

                 Am                                F                  G                   G7
When you cast your eyes upon the skylines of this - once proud nation
/Ab        Am7                          F
Can you sense the fear and the hatred
G                                      G7            /Ab
Growing in the hearts of its population

Am7 Fmaj7 G6(--5430) b-g-c

b      Am7      F              G                  G7    /Ab
Now youth, oh youth, are being . . . seduced
            Am7                 F           G              G7   /Ab
By the greedy hands of politics . . . and half truths

{Refrain
      Am7             F            G              G7   /Ab
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Am7            F         G                  G7            /Ab
Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation
      Am7             F            G             G7   /Ab
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Am7          F      G             G7        /Ab
Open your eyes, open your . . .imagination }

Am(-02213) F C C-G G

c        Am7                        F                         G                       G7
We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes and hypnotized by the satellites
Ab Am7            F                       G         G7
In . .to believing what is good and what is right

    Ab           Am7                                  C
You may be worshipping the temples of mammon
     G                               F
Or lost in the prisons of religion
                   Am7                   C                                 G            G   G F
But can you still walk back to happiness when you've nowhere left to run

[REFRAIN]

Am   F          G
Nah nah nah nah-nah nah
                   F                                    G
nuh-nuh nuh nuh-nuh nuh   nuh-nuh nuh nuh-nuh nuh

c            Am7     F        G       G7
If they send in the special police
Ab   Am7             F               G                 G7     Ab
To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace
                         Am7                    C
Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
                 G                     Fmaj7
When they tell us justice is being done
              Am7   -05555       C2    C2   G G G F
And that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun

[REFRAIN] Am(-02213) F C C-G G

                   F                                    G        c Am7 --4444 -05555
nuh-nuh nuh nuh-nuh nuh   nuh-nuh nuh nuh-nuh nuh

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Written by Matt Johnson / The The.

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