The Idiots Are Taking Over - Nofx | Guitar Chords

[Intro]
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A

[Verse 1]
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F#m                              D
   It's not the right time to be sober
A                   B
Now the idiots have taken over
D                           Bm                 A
 Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?
F#m                    D
   Mensa membership conceding
A                               B
Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
D                            Bm
 Watson, it's really elementary
                     A
The industrial revolution
                              F#m
Has flipped the bitch on evolution
      D                                                           A
The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer
                        F#m
The world keeps getting dumber
                 F            D                           A
Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason

[Verse 2]
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F#m                             D
Darwin's rolling over in his coffin
    A                               B
The fittest are surviving much less often
    D                           Bm             A
Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
F#m                                  D
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
    A                        B                           D
Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
                              Bm                 A
And I'm starting to feel a lot  like Charlton Heston
                      F#m
Stranded on a primate planet
                         D
Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
                                        A
With generals and the armies that obeyed them
                    F#m
Followers following fables
                     F                              D
Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

[Bridge]
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A F#m                                                        D
     There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
F#m                                                            D
   Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
A                                           F#m
 Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
              A                                                    F#m
Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions
            D
What are we left with?
  A                     B                 D
A nation of god fearing pregnant nationalists
                    Bm                       A
Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
             F#m
Pass on traditions
                     F
How to get ahead religions
        D                        A
And prosperity via simpleton culture
                       F
The idiots are taking over

[Chorus/Outro]
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D                       A
 The idiots are taking over
                       F
The idiots are taking over
D                       A
 The idiots are taking over
                       F
The idiots are taking over
D                       A
 The idiots are taking over
                       F
The idiots are taking over
D                       A
 The idiots are taking over