The Beaten Generation Acordes

[Verse 1]
 
         Am                  F
When you cast your eyes upon the skylines
       G
Of this once proud nation
                  Am           F
Can you sense the fear and the hatred
G                                       Am F G
Growing in the hearts of its population
    Am        F          G
And youth, oh youth, are being seduced
       Am              F            G
By the greedy hands of politics and half truths
 
[Chorus]
 
    Am        F
The beaten generation
    G
The beaten generation
Am          F       G
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
Am             F
The beaten generation
    G
The beaten generation
Am        F     G                   Am F G
Open your eyes, open your imagination
 
[Verse 2]
 
      Am                   F
We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes
    G
And hypnotised by the satellites
  Am           F                G
Into believing what is good and what is right
           Am                         C
You may be worshipping the temples of mammon
   G                      F
Or lost in the prisons of religion
            Am                 C
But can you still walk back to happiness
            G               F
When you've nowhere left to run?
 
 
[Chorus]
 
    Am        F
The beaten generation
    G
The beaten generation
Am          F       G
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
Am             F
The beaten generation
    G
The beaten generation
Am        F     G                   Am F G F G
Open your eyes, open your imagination
 
[Verse 3]
 
            Am          F       G
And if they send in the special police
      Am           F           G
To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace
               Am            C
Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
          G                  F
When they tell us justice is being done
         Am                   C            G     F
And that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun
 
 
[Chorus]
 
    Am        F
The beaten generation
    G
The beaten generation
Am          F       G
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
Am             F
The beaten generation
    G
The beaten generation
Am        F     G                   Am F G F G
Open your eyes, open your imagination
 
 
[Outro]
 
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