I Was a Teenage Anarchist

Intro 4x: D A

        D            A
I was a teenage anarchist
  D                 A
 Looking for a revolution
           D                A
I had the style, I had the ambition
             D                         A
Read all the authors I knew the right slogans
              D                 A
There was no war but the class war
               D                A
I was ready to set the world on fire
         D            A
I was a teenage anarchist
 D                 A
Looking for a revolution


E            D     A
Dooooo you remember when you were young
                   E                 D
And you wanted to set the world on fire
E            D     A
Dooooo you remember when you were young
                  E                 D
And you wanted to set the world on fire


         A         D  A
I was a teenage anarchist
         D                  A
But the politics were too convenient
        A                D    A
In the depths of their humanity
       A                D     A
All I saw was bloodless ideology
       A               D     A
With freedom as their doctrine
          A               D  A
Guess who was the new authority
          D           A
I was a teenage anarchist
          D                  A
But the politics were too convenient


E            D     A
Dooooo you remember when you were young
                   E                 D
And you wanted to set the world on fire
E            D     A
Dooooo you remember when you were young
                  E                 D
And you wanted to set the world on fire
                A
when you were young
                  E                 D
And you wanted to set the world on fire


       D            A
I was a teenage anarchist
               D              A
But then the scene got too rigid
        A         D
It was mob mentality
      A               D        A
They set their rifle sights on me
        A           D    A
Narrow visions of autonomy
                  A           D    A
You want me to surrender my identity
          E
I was a teenage anarchist

[stop]

The revolution was a lie



E            D     A
Dooooo you remember when you were young
                   E                 D
And you wanted to set the world on fire
E            D     A
Dooooo you remember when you were young
                  E                 D
And you wanted to set the world on fire
                A
when you were young
                  E                 D
And you wanted to set the world on fire
                A
when you were young
                  E                 D
And you wanted to set the world on fire

         A             D
I was a teenage anarchist (4x)