F#              B A
		How far will you go
		    F#                 B A
		How low will you stoop
		   B               A               B            A
		To tranquilize our minds with your sugar-coated swill

		       F#                             B A
		You've turned rock and roll rebellion
		     F#                 B A
		Into Pat Boone sedation
		B           A              B           D
		Making sure nothing's left of the imagination

		C#     B
		M.T.V. Get off the
		C#     B
		M.T.V. Get off the
		C#     B           F#
		M.T.V. Get off the air } 2x

		E           F#
		Get off the air

		F#                     B A F#                   B A
		See the latest rejects     from the muppet show
		B                        A
		Wag their tits and their dicks
		        B            A
		As they lip-synch on screen

		        F#
		There's something I don't like
		 B    A F#                     B A
		About a band who always smiles
		  B         A
		Another tax write-off
		         B                   D
		For some schmuck who doesn't care

		M.T.V. Get off the air...

		Get off the air
		Get off the air
		            F# F E D# C#
		Get off the air

		(bass break - following line twice: 1st time with bass only, 2nd time with
		guitar playing chords above)

		  C#       B        C#       B        F#       E        F#       E

		g --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
		d --------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|21-----|4-4-6-4-|21-----|
		a 4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|----4-2-|
		e ----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|

		(and this once)

		  C#       B        C#       B        F#       E        C#

		g --------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
		d --------|----1---|----3---|--------|4-----4-|21-----|4-------|--------|
		a 4-4---4-|2-2---2-|4-4---4-|2---4-24|----4---|----4-2-|--------|--------|
		e ----4---|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|

		C#m  B  A  G#   (2x trumpet or something)

		    C#    B
		And so it was
		    C#                B
		Our beloved corporate gods
		F#             E          F#    E
		Claimed they created rock video
		C#             B              C#       B
		Allowing it to sink as low in one year
		   F#         E         C#
		As commercial TV has in 25

		C#m                      B
		"It's the new frontier," they say
		     A                       G#
		It's wide open, anything can happen
		    C#m
		But you've got a lot of nerve
		            B
		To call yourself a pioneer
		                A
		When you're too god-damn conservative
		        G#
		To take real chances.

		C#        B
		Tin-eared
		      C#    B         F#
		Graph-paper brained accountants
		E                F#   E
		Instead of music fans
		C#           B              C#               B
		Call all the shots at giant record companies now
		    F#              E         C#
		The lowest common denominator rules

		C#m
		Forget honesty
		B
		Forget creativity
		    A
		The dumbest buy the mostest
		           G#
		That's the name of the game

		    C#m
		But sales are slumping
		    B
		And no one will say why
		A                                     G#
		Could it be they put out one too many lousy records?!?

		C#       B           F#
		M.T.V. - Get off the air!

		F#
		NOW!