E         F         F#            F
In visions of acid, we saw through delusion
      E          F           F#           F
and brainbox pollution - we knew we were right
       E             F            F#           F
The streets were our oyster, we smoked durban poison
        E           F             F#         F
and we turned this noise on, we knew how to fight

     A              G             A           G
We dropped out and tuned in, we spoke secret jargon
     A            G            A          G
and we would not bargain for what we had found
        Bb
In the days of the underground


[Verse 2]
      E            F         F#            F
We believed in Guevara, we saw that head held up
    E          F              F#         F
and our anger welled up, but we kept it cool
    E           F              F#          F
No need for machine guns, the system was crumbling
     E            F                   F#         F
Our leaders were fumbling, while we broke every rule

    A          G              A          G
We saw them on T.V., they'd blown their cover
     A            G            A           G
and we tried to smother their voices with sound
        Bb
In the days of the underground


[Chorus]
  G       F                   Bb     Ab
Whatever happened to those chromium heroes?
           G             F          Eb   C#
Are there none of them still left around
 C#
since the days of the underground?


[Verse 3]
 E          F                F#        F
Now we can look back at the heroes we were then
    E             F                 F#      F
We made quite a stir then with our Sonic Attack
   E             F          F#         F
Street-fighting dancers, assassins of silence
          E            F             F#            F
With the make-believe violence of a hundred-watt stack

     A           G             A              G
They offered us contracts, We said "we don't need 'em",
       A              G          A           G
We'll just take our freedom, we will not be bound
        Bb
In the days of the underground


[Verse 4]
     E          F            F#          F
And some of us made it, but not smiling Michael,
      E         F        F#        F
His black motorcycle got eaten by rust...
     E             F              F#          F
And John the Bog dreamt that he slept at the wheel,
         E           F         F#           F
when he woke it was real, too late to have sussed.

     A          G          A             G
And Jeff was a poet, who wrote with a spray can
     A            G            A                 G
on walls saying "Hey man, I believe that we've drowned"
        Bb
In the days of the underground