Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse

I was a teenage anarchist

Looking for a revolution

 I had the style, I had the ambition

Read all the authors I knew the right slogans

 There was no war but the class war

I was ready to set the world on fire

 I was a teenage anarchist

Looking for a revolution

Chorus

Dooooo you remember when you were young

 And you wanted to set the world on fire

Dooooo you remember when you were young

And you wanted to set the world on fire

I was a teenage anarchist

But the politics were too convenient

 In the depths of their humanity

All I saw was bloodless ideology

 With freedom as their doctrine

Guess who was the new authority

 I was a teenage anarchist

But the politics were too convenient

Pre Chorus riff:

Chorus

(same chords)

Dooooo you remember when you were young

And you wanted to set the world on fire

Dooooo you remember when you were young

And you wanted to set the world on fire

 when you were young

 And you wanted to set the world on fire

I was a teenage anarchist

But then the scene got too rigid

 It was mob mentality

They set their rifle sights on me

 Narrow visions of autonomy

You want me to surrender my identity

 I was a teenage anarchist

[stop]

The revolution was a lie

Pre Chorus riff:

Chorus

Dooooo you remember when you were young

And you wanted to set the world on fire

Dooooo you remember when you were young

And you wanted to set the world on fire

when you were young

And you wanted to set the world on fire

when you were young

And you wanted to set the world on fire

I was a teenage anarchist (4x)