Chords for Stiv Bators Interview 1988 Part One

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Beginning we had [E] faiths.
We started a new church.
Only our press agent said not to call it a new religion.
But it [Ebm] was a new religion.
[G] Rathmore [E] is the Western civilization.
[G] It's voodoo.
[E] When I speak about voodoo
[G]
We bring a certain [Gb] spiritualism to people.
In [G] the
[F] 50s not [E] only did rock and roll
[F]
replace the family unit
[G] and brought the young people
into a spirit [Bb] of self-identity.
They no longer looked like [Ebm] their parents and their mother wanted [D] to.
It became a [Eb] fashion.
It was saying, yeah, it's us against them.
[D] That's what rock and roll was about.
You had a few bands like Elvis Presley
who started out that way.
Then became taken over, controlled.
That's when the first controls of rock and roll
[E] by the big industry,
sort of like when Jack K got assassinated
and there was a coup d'etat in America.
Now it's controlled by corporations.
That's when rock and roll got it.
That was destroying the army.
[E] That was the seeds.
[D] They saw money there.
Money destroys all art.
[Db] Especially when it's an art form
[B] that's going to tear down the precious [Ebm]
society
that they fought to, World [E] Wars, defend.
[G]
I mean, when [Ebm] the vets would [B] look at me and think,
you know, I just fought and died for my country for [G] this.
That's right, they did.
Because this is [F] freedom.
Only [E] now they're trying to stop it.
They became everything they fought against.
And they proved it in 66.
11 years later,
when the [Eb] second cycle of rock and roll came [D] in,
[F] rock and roll [Ebm] then formed a political [Gm] organization.
And that [Eb] organization [E] stopped our war in [Ebm] Vietnam
and kicked the president out of [D] the White House.
[Em] That's when they finally saw
what a powerful structure it was.
It had a universal language.
Then we have 77.
[B] 11 years later,
corporations have taken [G] over rock and roll.
They weeded out all the subversives.
They can't change the music.
Away from revolution,
into meaningless
[Eb] [E] drab disco music
that had the same [Em] monotonous
[F] tones,
[B] same monotonous [Eb] beat,
and [E] that [Eb] out of work,
you can still go in the [E] path.
It was a [Ebm] value, as television [D] is.
It was a way to keep [Eb] people from talking to each other,
talking to the [E] truth,
finding out what's going on.
So 77, 11 years later,
came again rock and [D] roll.
This time, they're spitting in the face of rock and roll.
[E] They're exposing it for the [C] sellout it became.
[B] The hippies had a dream.
[C] They had a revolution.
And they settled for [Eb] MTV.
They preferred less of [Em] [Gm] harsh drug laws.
[G] And that was it.
[Fm] So the [E] hippies became everything they fought against.
They settled [Eb] for nothing.
They sold out [Cm] more cheap.
[C] So of course, the punks said,
no peaceful [G] revolution.
It was anarchy.
It [Gb] was all [Cm] time anarchy.
[E] That was prepackaged and [Eb] sold
to [Gb] an organization in England called the King's Head.
[Gm] So it started at a college unit.
It was a political, sort of,
political scientific group.
[C] And their way, they figured, to stop [Eb] real anarchy,
which was [Gm] starting to happen to England
because of [C] unemployment,
[Bb] their idea was to take all the seeds [Eb] of the revolution,
[E] expose it in the media as a fashion,
make the word [E] anarchy as [Gb] the hip word,
have [B] clothes to go with it,
have a band singing [E] it,
have the antiheroes.
That way, [Eb] the kids in the streets that are [D] poor
[E] will grab as much money as they can
to [Eb] support this anarchy,
[G] but in clothing.
[Gb] They don't have to fight in the [Gb] streets
to change what they believe in.
They're [Ebm] trying to change the world.
They're [D] changing their appearance,
[Ebm] thinking that's going to [Gb] do it.
And they committed [D] themselves.
So [Ebm] they joined the revolution.
[C] Instead of picking guns,
they picked up new clothes.
And that was it.
[Em] And then two or three years later,
the word anarchy, [C] the word revolution,
once again meant nothing but a past fashion phase.
So [Ebm] again, they [Gm] won.
[Gb]
You kept the fashions,
but the [Eb] music now is [D] the same music
that we fought against in 77.
[Am]
We're waiting right now for [B] the spirit of [Gb] 76
[B] or the re-appearance of 55, 66, and [G] 77 [C] again.
This [Eb] is ADA.
Pop music has been a voice,
an bastion for social change,
for its positive humanism.
Corporations have subverted this
[Gm] to the social control.
It has distorted our [D] perception
by giving images [Gm] and sounds,
[F] subliminally [Eb] conditioning us
to their political [G] climate beliefs.
We [E] have a nation of youth
who want to work for [Am] a congression
[Gb] into the next century
[E] towards an advanced humanitarian [D] man.
This has now [D] been reversed
into a negative, [E] selfish, totalitarian man.
[Dm] There's been no [Gm] other youth society
[Dm] who has been [E] likened to values or [D] goals or morals
to the [C] present American youth
than [Gm] Hitler's brown shirts.
The American youth will [A] hold
utter disdain and contempt for [C] the Nazi youth
and [D] what happened, yet they're the same.
They're the only trick to confuse
[F] to the corporate fascist [Gm] regimes
[E] that inflict and infiltrate [Dm] the American [Am] youth market.
[G] It's up to them to [Am] destroy it
[Gm] and expose it for what it is.
[C] But since they're controlling
all sources of information,
the only way you can do [G] it
is [Eb] going out to the people and preaching.
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_ Beginning we had [E] faiths.
We started a new church.
Only our press agent said not to call it a new religion.
_ But it [Ebm] was a new religion.
[G] Rathmore [E] is the Western civilization.
[G] It's voodoo. _ _ _
_ [E] When I speak about _ voodoo_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _
We bring a certain [Gb] spiritualism to people.
In [G] the _
_ [F] 50s not [E] only did rock and roll
_ _ [F]
replace the family unit
[G] _ _ _ and brought the young people
into a spirit [Bb] of self-identity.
They no longer looked like [Ebm] their parents and their mother wanted [D] to.
It became a [Eb] fashion.
It was saying, yeah, it's us against them.
[D] That's what rock and roll was about.
_ You had a few bands like Elvis Presley
who started out that way.
Then became taken over, controlled.
That's when the first controls of rock and roll
[E] by the big industry,
sort of like when Jack K got assassinated
and there was a coup d'etat in America.
Now it's controlled by corporations.
That's when rock and roll got it.
That was destroying the army. _
[E] That was the seeds.
[D] They saw money there. _
Money destroys all art.
[Db] _ Especially when it's an art form
[B] that's going to tear down the precious _ [Ebm]
society
that they fought to, World [E] Wars, defend.
[G] _ _
I mean, when [Ebm] the vets would [B] look at me and think,
you know, I just fought and died for my country for [G] this.
That's right, they did.
Because this is [F] freedom.
Only [E] now they're trying to stop it. _
They became everything they fought against.
_ And they proved it in 66.
_ _ _ _ 11 years later,
when the [Eb] second cycle of rock and roll came [D] in,
[F] rock and roll [Ebm] then formed a political [Gm] organization.
_ And that [Eb] organization _ [E] stopped _ _ our war in [Ebm] Vietnam
and kicked the president out of [D] the White House.
[Em] That's when they finally saw
what a powerful structure it was.
It had a universal language.
Then we have 77.
[B] _ 11 years later,
_ corporations have taken [G] over rock and roll.
They weeded out all the subversives.
They can't change the music.
Away from _ revolution,
into meaningless _
[Eb] _ _ _ [E] drab disco music
that had the same _ [Em] monotonous _
[F] tones,
[B] same monotonous [Eb] _ beat,
and [E] that _ [Eb] out of work,
you can still go in the [E] path.
It was a [Ebm] value, as television [D] is.
It was a way to keep [Eb] people from talking to each other,
talking to the [E] truth,
finding out what's going on.
So 77, 11 years later,
came again rock and [D] roll.
This time, they're spitting in the face of rock and roll.
[E] They're exposing it for the [C] sellout it became.
[B] The hippies had a dream.
[C] They had a revolution.
And they settled for [Eb] MTV.
They preferred _ less of [Em] _ _ _ [Gm] harsh drug laws.
[G] And that was it.
[Fm] _ So the [E] hippies became everything they fought against. _
They settled [Eb] for nothing.
_ They sold out [Cm] more cheap. _
_ [C] So of course, the punks said,
no peaceful [G] revolution.
_ It was anarchy.
It _ _ [Gb] was all [Cm] time anarchy. _ _ _
[E] That was prepackaged and [Eb] sold
to [Gb] an organization in England called the King's Head. _ _ _
[Gm] So it started at a college unit.
It was a political, _ sort of,
_ _ _ political scientific group.
_ [C] And their way, they figured, to stop [Eb] real anarchy,
which was [Gm] starting to happen to England
because of [C] unemployment,
[Bb] their idea was to take _ all the seeds [Eb] of the revolution,
_ [E] expose it in the media as a fashion,
_ make the word [E] anarchy as [Gb] the hip word,
have [B] clothes to go with it,
have a band singing [E] it,
have the antiheroes.
That way, [Eb] the kids in the streets that are [D] poor
[E] will grab as much money as they can
to [Eb] support this anarchy,
[G] but in clothing.
[Gb] They don't have to fight in the [Gb] streets
to change what they believe in.
They're [Ebm] trying to change the world.
They're [D] changing their appearance,
[Ebm] thinking that's going to [Gb] do it.
And they committed [D] themselves.
So [Ebm] they joined the revolution.
[C] Instead of picking guns,
_ they picked up new clothes.
And that was it.
[Em] And then two or three years later,
the word anarchy, [C] the word revolution,
once again meant nothing but a past fashion phase.
So [Ebm] again, they [Gm] won.
_ [Gb] _
You kept the fashions,
but the [Eb] music now _ is [D] the same music
that we fought against in 77.
[Am] _
_ _ We're waiting right now for [B] the spirit of [Gb] 76
_ [B] or the re-appearance of 55, 66, and [G] 77 [C] again.
This [Eb] is ADA.
_ Pop music has been a voice,
an bastion for social change,
for its positive _ humanism.
_ Corporations have subverted this
[Gm] to the social control.
It has distorted our [D] perception
by giving images [Gm] and sounds,
[F] subliminally [Eb] conditioning us
to their political [G] climate beliefs.
We [E] have a nation of youth
who want to work for [Am] a congression
[Gb] into the next century
[E] towards an advanced humanitarian [D] man.
_ This has now [D] been reversed
into a negative, [E] selfish, _ totalitarian man.
_ [Dm] There's been no [Gm] other youth society
[Dm] who has been [E] likened to values or [D] goals _ or morals
_ to the [C] present American youth
than [Gm] Hitler's brown shirts.
_ _ _ _ The American youth will [A] hold
_ utter disdain and contempt for [C] the Nazi youth
and [D] what happened, yet they're the same.
_ _ They're the only trick to confuse _
[F] to the corporate fascist [Gm] regimes _ _ _
[E] that inflict and infiltrate [Dm] the American [Am] youth market.
_ _ [G] It's up to them to [Am] destroy it
[Gm] and expose it for what it is. _ _
[C] But since they're controlling
all sources of information,
the only way you can do [G] it
is [Eb] going out to the people and preaching.