Chords for Talkin' Information Blues - Matt Pless

_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C#] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ There's a plague [B] going around in the world [F#] today called the Instant Information Age,
with cellular phones and cyberspace.
[B] I hardly even [C#] recognize the place, but I bet I can find out everything I want to know [F#] about it.
_ [B] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ Now, they found a cure [B] for the TV set.
[F#] It's a little machine [C#] called the internet.
[F#] It's got a little window where windows [B] pop up, so I sat [C#] down to take a look and I started
talking to them.
[F#] _ _
[B] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ It's got [B] everything from the latest [F#] fads to William Blake [C#] poems and personal ads.
[F#] When I think [C#] about the culture that I could have seen [B] if I only signed off [C#] the instant
message screen, but it's the new cigarette and it probably causes brain cancer.
_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ Now, let me tell you [B] all how each day [F#] ends.
I surf myself [C#] to see my friends.
People post [F#] comments and they all feel [B] cool and the boys and [C#] girls all think they're beautiful.
It feeds your ego and your libido and everywhere we go, somebody says they know somebody else
who knows [F#] you.
_ _ [B] _ _ [C#] Come to my space, Twitter my Yahoo and I'll Google all over your Facebook.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ Have you heard about [B] the girl I've been talking [F#] to?
Her screen name's [C#] Roxy, I heart you.
She sent me some [D#m] pictures and [F#] swears she's 18.
[B] I'd like to believe [C#] her if you know what I mean, but there must be something in the water. _
[F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [F#] _ We arranged to meet [B] on the street one day, but [F#] I couldn't [C#] think of a thing to say.
All that came [F#] out was LOL [B] and BRB [C#] and TTYL.
Turns out she wasn't old enough to have any real vocabulary anyway, so then I was MIA.
_ [F#] _ _
[B] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ And if you want to know [B] something that's kind of scary, [F#] we're raising a [C#] nation full of secretaries
[F#] who [C#] sit around all [D#m] day and type so [B] fast, they hardly realize [C#] time has passed.
Next thing you know, you're 25 years old and can enter 250 words a minute with one [F#] finger.
_ [B] _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
And now it's going to take [B] more than Ritalin [F#] to save my [C#] fried attention span.
When I [F#] think about how the times will [B] change and we'll all have computer [C#] chips in our brains,
it makes me wonder what's the point of being human anymore?
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
It's got immediate access [B] to TV [F#] shows, ringtones, [C#] photos, and song downloads, but when it comes
to living, I can't [B] relate or walk or [C#] talk or think or wait.
I'll just sit here and keep checking for that email.
_ Or that eBay purchase.
_ [F#] Evolving.
_ [B] _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
And now _ [B] everybody's pockets [F#] full with their very own [C#] portable Oracle, and I can't believe
it's [A#m] all come to this.
[B] The whole thing's kind [C#] of ridiculous, cause we never ask it any questions.
_ _ We just wait around to give it another [F#] answer.
_ _ [B] _ _ _
[C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ Now some of the people [B] might be online [C#] part of the time. _
_ _ [F#] Part of the people might [B] be online [C#] some of the time.
But one day [F#] all of the people [B] are going to be online [C#] all of the time.
_ Rupert Murdoch said that.
You can be in my screen if I can be in your screen.
I said that.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ _
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