Sing us a song of the century
Sings like American eulogy
The dawn of my love and conspiracy
Forgotten hope and the class of thirteen
Tell me a story into that goodnight
Song us a song for me
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Hysteria
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Mass hysteria [x3]
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Red alert is the color of panic
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Elevated to the point of static
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Beating into the hearts of the fanatics
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And the neighborhood\'s a loaded gun
(Em) (C)
Idle thought lead to full-thorttle screaming
(Em) (C)
And we welfare\'s asphixtiating
(F) (C)
Mass confussion is all the new rage
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And it\'s creating a feeding ground
(C)
From the bottom feeders of
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Hysteria
(Em) (C)
Mass hysteria [x3]
(Em) (F)
True sounds of maniacal laughter
(C) (Em)
And the deaf-mute\'s misleading the choir
(F) (C)
The punch line is a natural disaster
(Em) (F)
And it\'s sung by the unemployed
(Em) (C)
Fight fire with a riot
(Em) (C)
The class war is hanging on a wire
(F) (C)
Because the martyr is a compulsive liar
(F)
When he said: \"It\'s just a bunch of niggers
(C)
Throwing gas into the...
(Em) (C)
Hysteria
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Mass hysteria [x3]
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There\'s a disturbance on the oceanside
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They tapped into the reserve
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Static response is so unclear now
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Mayday this is not a test
(C)
As the neighborhood burns
(Em) (C) (F)
America is falling
(C) (F)
Vigilantes warning you
Calling Christian and Gloria
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I don\'t wanna live in the modern world [x4]
(F) (C) (Em) (C)
I (Am) the class of thirteen in the era if dissent
(F) (C) (F) (Em)
A hostage of the soul on a strike to pay the rent
(F) (C) (Em) (F)
The last of the rebels without a common ground
(F) (C) (F) (Em)
I\'m gonna light a fire into the underground, well
(Em) (C) (Em) (F)
I don\'t wanna live in the modern world [x4]
(Em) (C) (F) (C)
I am a nation without bureatratic ties
(Em) (C) (F)
Deny the allegiation as it\'s written
(Am) (C)
Fucking rules!
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(F) (C) (Em) (C)
I wanna take a ride to the great divide
(F) (C) (F) (Em)
Beyond the \"up to date\" and the neo-grentified
(F) (C) (Em) (C)
The high definition for the low resident
(F) (C) (F) (Em)
Where the value of your mind is not in held contempt
(F) (C) (Em) (C)
I can hear the sound of a beating heart
(F) (C) (F) (Em)
That bleeds beyond a system and it\'s falling apart
(F) (C) (Em) (C)
With money to burn on minimum wage
\'Cause I don\'t give a shit about the modern age
(Em) (C) (Em) (F)
I don\'t wanna live in the modern world [x4]
Mass hysteria