Biography:
Todd Daniel Snider is a singer-songwriter born October 11, 1966 in Portland, Oregon.
Best known for his wry humor, Snider has been a fixture on the Americana, alt-country, and folk scene since his debut on MCA, entitled Songs for the Daily Planet, named for the bar where Snider used to play regularly in Memphis. On that album were the minor hits "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues", a folk song about the early '90's grunge scene, featuring a band that "refused to play"
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Other songs:
- Beer Run
- A Stones Throw Away
- All Of My Life
- All Right Guy
- Alright Guy
- Back To The Crossroads
- Ballad Of Devils Backbone Tavern
- Ballad Of The Devils Backbone Tavern
- Brenda
- Bring Em Home
- Broke
- Cheatam Street Warehouse
- Close Enough To You
- Conservative Christian Right Wing Republican Straight White American Males
- Crooked Piece Of Time
- Db Cooper
- Doublewide Blues
- Drink Any Woman Pretty
- East Nashville Skyline
- Easy Money
- Enjoy Yourself
- Enough
- Happy New Year
- Happy To Be Here
- Hey Hey
- Horseshoe Lake
- I Can Drink Any Woman Pretty
- I Cant Complain
- I Spoke As A Child
- Iron Mikes Main Mans Last Request
- Just In Case
- Just Like Old Times
- Keep Off The Grass
- Like A Force Of Nature
- Lonely Girl
- Long Year
- Looking For A Job
- Missing You
- Money Compliments And Publicity
- Moondawgs Tavern
- My Generation Part 2
- Once He Finds Us
- Out All Night
- Play A Train Song
- Positively Negative
- Prison Walls
- Ragged Old Truck
- Rose City
- Sideshow Blues
- Sometimes I Wonder
- Statisticians Blues
- Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues
- Tension
- That Was Me
- The Ballad Of The Kingsmen
- The Devil You Know
- This Land Is Our Land
- Tillamook County Jail
- Vinyl Records
- Waco Moon
- Whats Wrong With You
- You Think You Know Somebody
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Tension
Todd Snider
A
Tension ss
D
Tension ss
A E||
Tension ssit's all that I know
A
I got tension out in traffic
D
I got tension in my office
A E A
I got tension and it's everywhere that I go
(Spoken)
A E
After the bad guy killed off all the underdeveloped characters
F#m A
The good guy put a bullet right through his head
E
The screenwriter stood up and told us that all the loose ends had been
F#m
tied, justice is irrelevant
D
Violent problems need violent solutions
A E
'Cause in America we like our bad guys dead
It's called box office, baby
A D E A
It's bigger than the damn Stones
(Spoken)
A E
Well they roped off all of my problems and pointed their fingers at addiction
F#m D A
'Cause they know if you're doin' the pointin' no one's lookin' at you
E
But you know this war on drugs it's funded by the Tobacco and Alcohol Commissions
F#m D
It's not what drugs you're strung out on they care about as much as whose
A E
You see people....people still love drugs
D A D E A
Y'all do anyway...I'm over it
Tension ss
Tension ss
Tension ssit's all that I know
I got tension in my classroom
I got tension in my courtroom
I got tension and it's everywhere that I go
(Spoken)
A E
When rock and roll first came around the preachers all went crazy
F#m D A
But soon that wasn't enough to bring people in the door
A E
So now they jump on any scandal that they can to try and save me
F#m D A E
'Cause they know I don't buy that crap about the Devil's music anymore
A D
Republicans
E
That's what scares people these days
A D E A
That and Democrats
(Chorus)
Todd Snider
A
Tension ss
D
Tension ss
A E||
Tension ssit's all that I know
A
I got tension out in traffic
D
I got tension in my office
A E A
I got tension and it's everywhere that I go
(Spoken)
A E
After the bad guy killed off all the underdeveloped characters
F#m A
The good guy put a bullet right through his head
E
The screenwriter stood up and told us that all the loose ends had been
F#m
tied, justice is irrelevant
D
Violent problems need violent solutions
A E
'Cause in America we like our bad guys dead
It's called box office, baby
A D E A
It's bigger than the damn Stones
(Spoken)
A E
Well they roped off all of my problems and pointed their fingers at addiction
F#m D A
'Cause they know if you're doin' the pointin' no one's lookin' at you
E
But you know this war on drugs it's funded by the Tobacco and Alcohol Commissions
F#m D
It's not what drugs you're strung out on they care about as much as whose
A E
You see people....people still love drugs
D A D E A
Y'all do anyway...I'm over it
Tension ss
Tension ss
Tension ssit's all that I know
I got tension in my classroom
I got tension in my courtroom
I got tension and it's everywhere that I go
(Spoken)
A E
When rock and roll first came around the preachers all went crazy
F#m D A
But soon that wasn't enough to bring people in the door
A E
So now they jump on any scandal that they can to try and save me
F#m D A E
'Cause they know I don't buy that crap about the Devil's music anymore
A D
Republicans
E
That's what scares people these days
A D E A
That and Democrats
(Chorus)
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