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Just a note- the chords listed may be alternate fingerings, bar chords, or "power
(for example D = D5) but i've just written the basic chord sequence. Shouldn't
be too to determine what form a certain chord comes in. but the going from G to
Gm is most easily done with the bar chord.
D Gm
Here we have a dust free dining set
E|5-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-2-2-2
D Gm D D-C#-C-C#-D
we guarantee it won't collect a speck
G Gm D A Bm
freeing up the children to instead grow into your molding
D A Bm E A
heed more of your scolding, go early to their new self-making beds
D Gm
it seems like you'd be tired of losing face
E|5-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-2-2-2
D Gm D D-C#-C-C#-D
like you'd want to put the children in their place
G Gm D A Bm
the more you have to tell them to do their chores
E A A7
the more you run the risk of being ignored
Em D A
if you're lucky they'll turn out as good as you
Em D A
you tell them that they're good kids but you know that it's not true
D F#m Bm G
your father drank a little, you're on liver number two
e|---------------------------------|
b|---------------------------------|
g|2-4-2-0--------------------------|
d|--------4-2-0-0h2-0-0------------|
a|----------------------4-5-0-2-4--|
E|---------------------------------|
D Gm
progress has a way of feigning ease
E|5-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-2-2-2
D Gm D D-C#-C-C#-D
convenient new inventions beg and tease
G Gm D A Bm
for though it is impossible to cure a husband bent on cheating
D A Bm D A Bm
the oxygen depleting... a child who's always bragging
D A Bm
a wife's persistent nagging
E A A7
we're equipped to live as though it were
(repeat "if you're lucky" part)
end on D
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No Picture
Braxton Lead Player |
#1 by Braxton Overby at Sep 22, 1972 at 9:24 AM EST |
| I actually prefer this version to the EP version. I think the performance sounds very thin and unemotional on the EP as compared to this one. What an accurate song this is. | |
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Carly Average |
#2 by Carly at Apr 11, 1978 at 3:01 AM EST |
| I think I jumped the gun a little too early on saying that last song was the best example of the human condtion. Here Bazan shows us more of this sad dysfunctional family. This family has all of the great inventions of modern technology from “dust-free dining sets” to “self-making” beds. You know what the great thing about modern technology is? It gives us more time to have our kids follow in our molding. The picture of this family is not the molding that we are Christians want to live, but sadly it is closer to how we act as well are the rest of society. The sins of the grandfather have carried down to the father (who is “on liver number two”) and God knows it will be passed on to the kids. Depravity should only make us get on our knees and turn to God. It is obvious in this song that the kids have followed in their parents ways. The parents fear punishing them because they are only going to be ignored. Which is exactly what they are doing to each other. The husband is cheating, the kids bragging, and the wife is nagging, and it is all thanks to the progress of “convient new inventions”. Writing that line reminds me of Fight Club and their struggle to fight against so-called progress. If only our fight was for morality, it seems like people would turn to God and not “liver number two”. | |
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Justin Average |
#3 by Justin Ruiz at Mar 11, 1980 at 8:37 AM EST |
| I agree. I think that even though the inventions are futuristic, the ideas and attitudes are current. I like the version on the Progress EP better than the "computer-change-my-voice-like-Cher-or-a-boy-band" version found on Control. For those who don't know, this song was originally titled "April 6, 2039." | |
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dalton Average |
#4 by dalton hoffman at Sep 27, 1980 at 1:12 PM EST |
| I think Bazan did that voice at the beginning in order to simulate an announcer at a store. That's what I hear. | |