[Intro]
E C#m7 E D7 A

[Verse]
    E
The facts we hate

We'll never meet
                 D7
Walking down the road

Everybody yelling, "Hurry up, hurry up!"
    E
But I'm waiting for you

I must go slow
  D
I must not think bad thoughts

When is this world coming to?
E
Both sides are right

But both sides murder
D7
I give up
               A
Why can't they?


[Chorus]
  F#m      A         G
I must not think bad thoughts
  F#m      A         G
I must not think bad thoughts
  F#m      A         B
I must not think bad thoughts

[Verse]
    E
The civil wars

And the uncivilized wars
D7                      D9
Conflagrations leap out of every poor furnace
    E
The food cooks poorly

And everyone goes hungry
     D7
From then on, it's dog eat dog
D9
Dog eat body and body eat dog
E
I can't go down there
D7
I can't understand it
E
I'm a no-good coward

An American, too
   D7
(A North American, that is)

[Chorus]

And I must not think bad thoughts (Not a South)
E
And I must not think bad thoughts (or a Central)

And I must not think bad thoughts (or a Native American)
      D7
Oh, I must not think bad thoughts
                     D9
I must not think bad thoughts

[Verse]
C#7           E
I'm guilty of murder

Of innocent men
         D7
Innocent women, innocent children

Thousands of 'em
E
My planes, my guns

My money, my soldiers
 D7
My blood on my hands

It's all my fault


[Chorus]
F#         A         G
I must not think bad thoughts
F#         A         G
I must not think bad thoughts
F#         A         B
I must not think bad thoughts
B7
    E
The facts we hate

You'll never hear us
   D7                        D9
"I hear the radio is finally gonna play new music!
              E
You know, the British invasion"

But what about the Minutemen
D7
Flesh Eaters, D.O.A
                 D9
Big Boys and the Black Flag?
         E
Will the last American band to get played on the radio
D7
Please bring the flag?
                  D9
Please bring the flag!
E
Glitter disco synthesizer night school
         D7
All this noble savage drum drum drum
E
Astronauts go back in time to hang out with the cave people
D7
It's about time

It's about space
     E
It's about some people in the strangest places

Woody Guthrie sang about
D                      A
B-E-E-T-S, not B-E-A-T-S

[Chorus]
F#m        A         G
I must not think bad thoughts
F#         A         G
I must not think bad thoughts
F#         A         B
I must not think bad thoughts

    E
The facts we hate

We'll never meet
                 D7
Walking down the road

Everybody yelling, "Hurry up, hurry up!

Hurry up!"
    E
But I'm waiting for you

I must go slow
  D7
I must not think bad thoughts

When is this world coming to?
E
Both sides are right

But both sides murder
D7
I give up
A
Why can't they?


[Chorus]
F#         A         G
I must not think bad thoughts
F#         A         G
I must not think bad thoughts
F#         A         B
I must not think bad thoughts

[Outro]
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E D7 Am
E D7 D9
E D7 D
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