Intro
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[Verse 1]
Gm
You were thrown into a tin can,
Gm
and you learned how to beg and borrow
Gm
And you grew into a thin man,
Gm
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]
Gm
When you're spinning on the subway
Gm
Naked lights dancing on the river
Gm
No you're never gonna leave her
Gm
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
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Still you're singing
[Chorus]
Gm F
Shine, electric city, shine
Dm
In the cool of your emptiness
C
Around the curve of your spine
Gm F
Come on and shine, electric city, shine
Dm
Like six thousand wings in the sky
C
Over the scene of the crime
[Verse 3]
Gm
When you come to an ending
Gm
Never reaching no conclusion
Gm
And you're sick of bending
Gm
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]
Gm
You don't have to be a soldier to fight
Gm
But you'd better have a killer in you
Gm
You don't have to be a poet to die
Gm
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
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Keep on singing
[Chorus]
Gm F
Shine, electric city, shine
Dm
From the back of the cold beyond
C
Out to the end of the line
Gm F
Come on and shine, electric city, shine
Dm
Like the sun in a hurricane's eye
C
Diamonds drowning in brine
[Outro]
Gm
Come on and shine
Gm
Shine
Gm
Shine
Gm
Shine