intro; AM C G E AM C G E
AM C
have you been to the desert?
G D
have you walked with the dead?
AM C E
there's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread
F C
and the figures don't lie they speak of human disease
G C G
but we do what we want and we think what we please
AM C
have you lived the experience?
G D
have you witnessed the plague?
AM C G E
people making babies sometimes just to escape
F C
in this land of competition the compassion is gone
G C G
yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on
C G
we keep pushing on
AM F C G
this is just a punk rock song
AM F C E
written for the people who can see something's wrong
F C
like ants in a colony we do our share
E
but there's so many other fuckin' insects out there
AM F C G ( C G E AM C G E)
and this is just a punk rock song
AM C G D
Have You Visited The Quagmire? Have you swum in the shit?
AM C G E
The party conventions and the relapolitik
F C
the faces always different, the retoric the same
G C G
but we swallow it all and we see nothing change
C G
nothing has change
AM F C G
T HIS IS JUST A PUNK ROCK SONG
AM F C E
written from the people who can see something’s wrong
F C
like workers in a company we do our share
E
but there’s so many fuckin’ robots out there
AM F C G
and this is just a punk rock song!
solo(AM C G E AM C G E AM C G E AM C G E)
AM C G DM
10 million dollars on a losing campaign
AM C G DM
20 million starving and writhing in pain
AM C G DM
big strong people unwilling to give
AM C G E
small in vision and perspective
F C
one in five kids below the poverty line
G C G
one population runnin' out of time
C G
Runnin’ out time
AM F C G AM F C G
Thisisjust a punk ROCK SONG…….AND THIS IS JUST A PUNK ROCK SONG
F C
FIGURES don’t lie they speak of human disease
G C G
but we do what we want and we think what we please
F C
ONE FIVE KIDS BLOW THE POWERTY LINE
G C G
ONE POPULATION RUNNIN’ OUT OF TIME
AM F C G AM F C G
this is just a punk rock song this is just a punk rock song
AM F C G
this is just a punk rock song
