F#         B A
How far will you go
   F#           B A
How low will you stoop
  B          A         
To tranquilize our minds 
 B        A
with your sugar-coated swill
 
     F#              B A
You've turned rock and roll rebellion
   F#           B A
Into Pat Boone sedation
B       A         B  
Making sure nothing's 
     D
left of the imagination

C#   B
M.T.V. Get off the
C#   B
M.T.V. Get off the
C#   B       F#
M.T.V. Get off the air } 2x

E       F#
Get off the air

F#        B A F#      B A
See the latest rejects from the muppet show
B          A
Wag their tits and their dicks
     B        A
As they lip-synch on screen

     F#
There's something I don't like
 B   A F#        B A
About a band who always smiles
 B      A
Another tax write-off
      B       D
For some schmuck who doesn't care

C#   B
M.T.V. Get off the air...
E       F#
Get off the air
E       F#
Get off the air
        F# F E D# C#
Get off the air

Bass break: following line twice: 1st time with bass only, 
            2nd time with guitar playing chords above.

 C#     B     C#     B     F#     E     F#     E
g-----------------------------------------------------------------
d-------------1-------3-----------4-----4-21-----4-4-6-4-21------- x2
a-4-4---4-2-2---2-4-4---4-2---4-24----4-------4-2-------------4-2-
e-----4-----------------------------------------------------------

 C#     B     C#     B     F#     E     C#
g--------------------------------------------------
d-------------1-------3-----------4-----4-21-----4- 
a-4-4---4-2-2---2-4-4---4-2---4-24----4-------4-2-- x1
e-----4--------------------------------------------

C#m B A G# }x2 

   C#   B
And so it was
   C#           B
Our beloved corporate gods
F#         E       F#   E
Claimed they created rock video
C#         B         C#     B
Allowing it to sink as low in one year
  F#      E      C#
As commercial TV has in 25

C#m         B
"It's the new frontier," they say
   A         G#
It's wide open, anything can happen
   C#m
But you've got a lot of nerve
        B
To call yourself a pioneer
           A
When you're too god-damn conservative
     G#
To take real chances.

C#     B
Tin-eared
    C#   B      F#
Graph-paper brained accountants
E           F#  E
Instead of music fans
C#       B         C#          B
Call all the shots at giant record companies now
   F#         E      C#
The lowest common denominator rules

C#m
Forget honesty
B
Forget creativity
   A
The dumbest buy the mostest
       G#
That's the name of the game

   C#m
But sales are slumping
   B
And no one will say why
A             G#
Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?

C#     B       F#
M.T.V. - Get off the air!

F#
NOW!

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