Serj Tankian › Unthinking Majority Guitar Tab

Send "Unthinking Majority " Ringtone to your Cell Phone

Serj's First single from his first album,
The Unthinking Majority
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Send "Unthinking Majority " Ringtone to your Cell Phone

Source: http://www.guitarmasta.net/s/serj_tankian/363349.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Austin Average	#1 by Austin Schrauben at Sep 30, 2007 at 6:30 PM EST
	NAEEM9! mispronounciation my ***.. i'm a sound engineer and we pick up on mispronounciation if there is a problem we call the artist back.. that is what he wanted us to hear.. dollerable is meant to be just that and promote debates such as this ;) ps hope the fast is going well :)

No Picture stephen Average	#2 by stephen warunki at Sep 30, 2007 at 8:31 PM EST
	Deffinatly a very good song, Isnt exactly most complex of ideas but i really like this song. Likely a political song.

No Picture Tyler Average	#3 by Tyler at Oct 1, 2007 at 4:33 AM EST
	Alright, so the lyrics aren't very deep so this shouldn't be too hard. Let's start off with the first part... Quote: We don't need your democracy. Execute them kindly for me. Take them by their filthy nostrils Put them up in doggy hostels. We don't need your hypocrisy Execute real democracy. Post-industrial society The unthinking majority Basically, Serj is pissed at whoever is running their democracy and wants them dead. In the second part of this, Serj wants leaders to execute (carry out) what democracy is all about. Now we the people, in this post-industrial society, are not thinking. Quote: Anti-depressants Controlling tools of your system Making life more tolerable "Tools of your system" are referring to us. We are taking anti-depressants (drugs, alcohol, etc.) and forgetting about what is going on around us. Quote: I believe that you're wrong Insinuating that they hold the bomb Clearing the way for the oil brigade Serj, in my opinion, is referring to Iraq here. The US government told everyone that Saddam had bombs, and once they got in they brought in people to get oil. That's it!

No Picture kevin Rhythm Player	#4 by kevin jeung at Oct 1, 2007 at 1:19 PM EST
	Yep, it's definately dollarable. anyway, this sounds like an amazing system song without darren's annoying whining so yeah can't wait for the album!

No Picture Flash Average	#5 by Flash Jaxon at Oct 1, 2007 at 11:29 PM EST
	Thanks! The album "Elect the Dead" actually comes out on October 23rd (if you live in the US). Also, "dollerable" would make sense, except it's not a word in the English dictionary.

No Picture December Underg Average	#6 by December Underground at Oct 3, 2007 at 4:01 PM EST
	I think that the "anti-depressants" are sort of a representation of all the quick-fixes in the world... like governments that can only think as far ahead as the next election, just wanting to sweep the real issues under the rug and spending ridiculous amounts of money on nothing.

No Picture jordan Average	#7 by jordan roberts at Oct 6, 2007 at 2:30 PM EST
	its as it is. post industrial society is being controlled by aniti depressants, mkaing life more tolerable. the us is wrong, insinuating iraq holds the bomb, making way for the oil brigade

No Picture More Cowbell Lead Player	#8 by More Cowbell at Oct 9, 2007 at 8:10 PM EST
	Well, neither is "lonelyest" (Lonely Day, duh). :P

No Picture ben Lead Player	#9 by ben Tee at Oct 11, 2007 at 2:20 AM EST
	Well done naeem9. I think you're right there. Perhaps Serj means Dollarable. It's not 'officially' a word, but it could be taken to mean suitable for US economic interests, like in Afghanistan, Iraq and soon Iran.

No Picture goofy Rhythm Player	#10 by goofy at Oct 12, 2007 at 6:14 AM EST
	After listening to it, I figured out that the first time it's tolerable, then "dollarable", then next time that verse comes up he says tolerable and then tolerable once again. But then again, maybe he's just pronouncing tolerable differently. He pronounces society and "sasayati" and I-E-A-I-A-I-O he says (if you listen carefully): "Meeting John at Dale's Jr./winked an eye and point a finger...Meeting John at Dale's Jr./winked an eye and point a FINBER". Now, finber doesn't make sense and it's most likely a mispronunciation, but dollarable does...so I guess we'll just have to wait until the official lyrics come out, no?

No Picture Devin Average	#11 by Devin Moreno at Oct 15, 2007 at 3:04 AM EST
	Yeah you guys have a point here, lonelyest isn't a word and I guess Serj can make up a word if there is sense to it!

No Picture Jesus Professional	#12 by Jesus at Oct 16, 2007 at 8:06 AM EST
	By the way, Serj says "dollerable" the second time, not "tolerable".

No Picture Dominic Badass	#13 by Dominic Smith at Oct 17, 2007 at 5:32 PM EST
	Great song, naeem9 pretty much summed it up. Can't wait until Oct. 29th.