Advert Soundtrack chords by Will Varley

Advert Soundtrack - Will Varley


B       B       F#  Abm E       B

B
So when I think about sex I think of Durex,

And it's Armitage Shanks when I'm taking a piss,
Abm
The icons of time are Swatch and Rolex,
E
And Captain Birdseye is the governor of fish.

B
So they found a way of controlling the masses,

On the sides of the buses and TV screens,
Abm
The bombs start dropping when religion clashes,
E                               F#
Atheism, the American dream.

B
With headlines designed to shoot down heroes,

Trading money for popularity,
Abm
They're laughing stocks until they die young,
E                       F#
And the papers cash in on their tragedies.

B
So Little Bo Beep would be knocked up at 14,

Addicted to vodka and ketamin,
Abm
If she lost her sheep she wouldn't give a shit,
E                         F#
As long as she gets home in time to watch Skins.

B
Cuz we're not a generation,
Abm
We're just a target market,
E
This is an advert soundtrack,
Abm           F#
Just for the broken hearted

B

B
So mix red and blue you get purple hazes,

Fills the sky on election days,
Abm
Choke you down at the polling station,
E                         F#
Fascists will blame it on immigration.


B
But the magazines, billboards, catchphrases, gimmicks,

You buy one you get one you get one free,
Abm
They promised me fast cars, riches and women,
E                         F#
All they ever gave me was A.D.D.

B
Life is a shit thing, a shit thing to me,
Abm
I'm always looking back to the sixties,
E
What a waste of fucking space,
Ab      F#
Most universities.

B
Cuz the dole queue is stretching around the block,

And this empire has got no friends,
Abm
That was not a recession,
E                       F#
That was the beginning of the end.

B
Cuz we're not a generation,
Abm
We're just a target market,
E
This is an advert soundtrack,
Abm           F#
Just for the broken hearted

B
We're not a generation,
Abm
We're just a target market,
E
This is an advert soundtrack,
Abm           F#
Just for the broken hearted

         E
So I'll put out my hands, and lay down my arms,
B
Plug me in to the matrix and facebook charms,
F#
And I will buy all the things, that you want me to own,
E
My wife can give birth to a mobile phone.

B
And I'll try and get a gig at the Durex Apollo,

And I'll try and get sponsored by Dignitas
Abm
And when I've got enough people to follow,
E                       F#               B
We can all turn up there one day en masse.

B
Cuz we're not a generation,
Abm
We're just a target market,
E
This is an advert soundtrack,
Abm           F#
Just for the broken hearted

B
We're not a generation,
Abm
We're just a target market,
E
This is an advert soundtrack,
Abm           F#
Just for the broken hearted


B