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