R.E.M.

Ignoreland

R.E.M.


Tom: C

Intro: F | G | F | G   (play chords each for one measure, then riff section)

riff: (Guitar 2 plays riff, Guitar 1 plays chords above tab)
      F(VIII)  G(X)    C(III) D(V)        C
E|--------------------------------------------|
B|---10-------12\-------8----10---------------|
G|---10-------12\-------5-----7----------4\0--|
D|--------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|

      D5                      D7 (no 3rd)             G/D
These bastards stole their power         from the victims of the
  Em7               D5                  D7 (no 3rd)      G/D
Us v.  Them years.  Wrecking all things virtuous    and true.
    D5             D7 (no 3rd)             G/D                 Em7
The undermining social         democratic downhill slide into      abysmal
D5                    D7 (no 3rd)      G/D                  Em7
lost lamb off the precipice      into     the trickle down runoff pool.
      C              D       C               D
They hypnotized the summer, nineteen seventy-nine.
 C                D                     F                        G
Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,
                   F
heartless, and labeled.  Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
                             G
mega ultra power dosing.  Relax.
                                     F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)     C
Defense, defense, defense, defense.  Yeah,        yeah,         yeah.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.
    D5                                  G/D                   Em7
The information nation took their clues     from all the sound - bite gluttons.
D5                      D7 (no 3rd)                          G/D     Em7
Nineteen eighty, eighty-four,      eighty-eight, ninety-two     too,    too.
D5             D7 (no 3rd)         G/D                   Em7
How to be what you        can be, jump jam junking your energies.
D5             D7 (no 3rd)      G/D              Em7
How to walk in dignity    with throw-up on your shoes.
     C              D      C                D
They amplified the autumn, nineteen seventy-nine.
C              D                    F
Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass.
      G                                   F
T.V. tells a million lies.  The papers terrified to report
anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon,
           G                                 F(VIII) G(X)      C(III) D(V)  C
I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this.  So,          what to     do,  man.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.
C                                                     Bm
   If they weren't there we would have created them.  Maybe, it's true,
    Bb                           A
but I'm resentful all the same.  Someone's got to take the blame.
  D5                D7 (no 3rd)  G/D         Em7
I know that this is vitriol.    No solution,    spleen-venting,
     D5             D7 (no 3rd)                 G/D      Em7
But I   feel better having     screamed; don't you?
     C           D       C               D
They desecrated winter, nineteen seventy-nine.
C           D                       F                       G
Capital collateral.  Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,
                   F
heartless, and labeled.  Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
                             G
mega ultra power dosing.  Relax.
                                     F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)     C
Defense, defense, defense, defense.  Yeah,        yeah,         yeah.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C D
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.  Ignoreland.
F(VIII) G(X)       C(III)  D(V)   C
Yeah,         yeah,        yeah.