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Whats The Frequency Kenneth

R.E.M

 DAGDAG
VERSE 1

 ADBmGADAG
  “What's the frequency, Kenneth?”  Is your Benzedrine, uh-huh.        
 ADBmGADBmE
  I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed.        
 GA
  I thought I pegged you an idiot's dream.
 GA
  Tunnel vision from the insider's screen.
 DADGAGA
  I never understood the frequency, uh-huh.       
 DADGAGAD
  You wore our expectations like an armoured suit, uh-huh.       

VERSE 2

 ADBmGADAG
  I'd studied you're cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines.     
 ADBmGADBmE
  Richard said, “withdraw in disgust is not the same as apathy.”       
 GA
  A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth.
 GA
  You said that irony was the shackles of youth.
 DADGAGA
  You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh.       
 DADGAGAD
  I never understood the frequency, uh-huh.          

INSTRUMENTAL (BUCK'S NEW VERSION, NOT FROM THE ORIGINAL RECORD)

 DADGAGADADGA
E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----2-23-2-33--2---23-2-3-23------232--232--232--232--232-23-|
G|-2-4--------------24---------2---24---24---24---24---24-------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------| × 1


 GAD
E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-2---------------3--------------------------------------------|
G|----0-2-4-2--2-4---2------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------| × 1


VERSE 3

 ADBmGADAG
  “What's the frequency, Kenneth?”  Is your Benzedrine, uh-huh.        
 ADBmGADBmE
  Butterfly decal, rear-view mirror, dogging the scene.       
 GA
  You smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth.
 GA
  You said that irony was the shackles of youth.
 DADGAGA
  You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh.       
 DADGAGA
  I never understood the frequency, uh-huh.       
 DADGA
  You wore our expectations like an armoured suit, uh-huh.

VERSE 4

 GA
  I couldn't understand.
 DADGA
  You said that irony was the shackled of youth, uh-huh.
 GA
  I couldn't understand.
 DADGA
  You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh.
 GA
  I couldn't understand.
 DADGAGAD
  I never understood, don't fuck with me, uh-huh.          


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