Thou Shalt Not Kill Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]You always see the future
by looking backwards, okay?
Let's look backwards.
Rock and roll.
1950, rock and roll is born.
It's an awkward youth
with a sense of humor,
a lot of raw emotion,
and a terrible reputation
because it's a juvenile delinquent.
Ten years later, it grows a conscience,
and it's getting the bad rap.
It goes, hey, look what you're [B]doing with the war,
[D]you mongoloids with the [Ab]long hair
and all this [D]stuff, you know.
So in the 70s, it goes suburban.
Corporate rock comes
[Ab]in, it blends out[D].
The 80s arrive,
everybody bends over,
you know.
Falwell pulls a string,
the enema comes out,
the entire industry goes,
hey, thanks a lot, we needed that,
okay?
Broadcasters have bent over.
the record companies bent over,
the songwriters either out of ignorance,
they weren't in[Ab]formed of what was [D]happening,
or they just wanted
to keep their mouth shut
to protect their interests.
Nobody said anything.
And meanwhile,
these women with the collars up to here,
who sit there like that,
and with husbands in high places,
are going around doing the most outrageous things
with your rights.
You know, they chose
the record industry
because it's very
easy to make fun of people
who look and act different than you.
They love it that somebody
from Motley Crue
has got hair out like this
and makeup and this stuff,
know,
and they show pictures of,
look at this.
Do you want your child to,
know, that.
They've been doing that since
the beginning.
They did it with Elvis Presley.
And before that, they did it with the fact
that a lot of the performers were black.
Do you want your children
listening to music by Negroes?
You know, it took years before they
could even get that kind of music
on white people's radio stations.
And then white people suddenly said,
hey, big money here,
boom, rock and roll.
But, what they're doing now is very,
it's critical at this point now
because unless somebody stands up and says,
this has got to stop now,
the 90s are not go[Ab]ing to be bent over,
they're going to be lying down.
[D]They're either going be lying down
or they're going to be walking like this,
dressed like the people in Red China.