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