Intro: D A (4x)  

        D            A 
I was a teenage anarchist 
  D                 A 
 Looking for a revolution 
           D                A 
I had the style, I had the ambition 
             D                         A 
Read all the authors I knew the right slogans 
              D                 A 
There was no war but the class war 
               D                A 
I was ready to set the world on fire 
         D            A 
I was a teenage anarchist 
 D                 A 
Looking for a revolution 


E            D     A 
Dooooo you remember when you were young 
                   E                 D 
And you wanted to set the world on fire 
E            D     A 
Dooooo you remember when you were young 
                  E                 D 
And you wanted to set the world on fire 


         A         D  A 
I was a teenage anarchist 
         D                  A 
But the politics were too convenient 
        A                D    A 
In the depths of their humanity 
       A                D     A 
All I saw was bloodless ideology 
       A               D     A 
With freedom as their doctrine 
          A               D  A 
Guess who was the new authority 
          D           A 
I was a teenage anarchist 
          D                  A 
But the politics were too convenient 


E            D     A 
Dooooo you remember when you were young 
                   E                 D 
And you wanted to set the world on fire 
E            D     A 
Dooooo you remember when you were young 
                  E                 D 
And you wanted to set the world on fire 
                A 
when you were young 
                  E                 D 
And you wanted to set the world on fire 


       D            A 
I was a teenage anarchist 
               D              A 
But then the scene got too rigid 
        A         D 
It was mob mentality 
      A               D        A 
They set their rifle sights on me 
        A           D    A 
Narrow visions of autonomy 
                  A           D    A 
You want me to surrender my identity 
          E 
I was a teenage anarchist 
stop 
The revolution was a lie 



E            D     A 
Dooooo you remember when you were young 
                   E                 D 
And you wanted to set the world on fire 
E            D     A 
Dooooo you remember when you were young 
                  E                 D 
And you wanted to set the world on fire 
                A 
when you were young 
                  E                 D 
And you wanted to set the world on fire 
                A 
when you were young 
                  E                 D 
And you wanted to set the world on fire 

         A             D 
I was a teenage anarchist (4x)