Intro
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[Verse 1]
Cm
You were thrown into a tin can,
Cm
and you learned how to beg and borrow
Cm
And you grew into a thin man,
Cm
In the land of success, sin and sorrow
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Now you're sleeping in a suitcase
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With a pill bottle for a pillow
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When you're hanging by a shoelace
F
It can get to be hard to swallow
[Verse 2]
Cm
When you're spinning on the subway
Cm
Naked lights dancing on the river
Cm
No you're never gonna leave her
Cm
Though you think someday that you might forgive her
A#
Slipping into a slow dive
A#
Cold black water makes you follow
F
Swimming into a spiral
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Still you're singing
[Chorus]
Cm A#
Shine, electric city, shine
Gm
In the cool of your emptiness
F
Around the curve of your spine
Cm A#
Come on and shine, electric city, shine
Gm
Like six thousand wings in the sky
F
Over the scene of the crime
[Verse 3]
Cm
When you come to an ending
Cm
Never reaching no conclusion
Cm
And you're sick of bending
Cm
And nursing every fresh contusion
A#
When you're lying in the soft arms
A#
Of a silent ambulance that's speeding
F
And you're trying to tell the doctor
F
that it's only a broken heart
[Verse 4]
Cm
You don't have to be a soldier to fight
Cm
But you'd better have a killer in you
Cm
You don't have to be a poet to die
Cm
It's the little things that kill you
A#
Everybody gets a bad break
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G little hit of pain and sorrow
F
Just forget about tomorrow
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Keep on singing
[Chorus]
Cm A#
Shine, electric city, shine
Gm
From the back of the cold beyond
F
Out to the end of the line
Cm A#
Come on and shine, electric city, shine
Gm
Like the sun in a hurricane's eye
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Diamonds drowning in brine
[Outro]
Cm
Come on and shine
Cm
Shine
Cm
Shine
Cm
Shine