Electric City

Dm
You were thrown into a tin can,
Dm
and you learned how to beg and borrow
Dm
And you grew into a thin man,
Dm
In the land of success, sin and sorrow
C
Now you're sleeping in a suitcase
C
With a pill bottle for a pillow
G
When you're hanging by a shoelace
G
It can get to be hard to swallow

Dm
When you're spinning on the subway
Dm
Naked lights dancing on the river
Dm
No you're never gonna leave her
Dm
Though you think someday that you might forgive her
C
Slipping into a slow dive
C
Cold black water makes you follow
G
Swimming into a spiral
F
Still you're singing

Dm                        C
Shine, electric city, shine
                      Am
In the cool of your emptiness
                    G
Around the curve of your spine
            Dm                    C
Come on and shine, electric city, shine
                   Am
Like six thousand wings in the sky
                       G
Over the scene of the crime

Dm
When you come to an ending
Dm
Never reaching no conclusion
Dm
And you're sick of bending
Dm
And nursing every fresh contusion
C
When you're lying in the soft arms
C
Of a silent ambulance that's speeding
G
And you're trying to tell the doctor
G
that it's only a broken heart

Dm
You don't have to be a soldier to fight
Dm
But you'd better have a killer in you
Dm
You don't have to be a poet to die
Dm
It's the little things that kill you
C
Everybody gets a bad break
C
A little hit of pain and sorrow
G
Just forget about tomorrow
F
Keep on singing

Dm                        C
Shine, electric city, shine
                     Am
From the back of the cold beyond
                      G
Out to the end of the line
Dm                                C
Come on and shine, electric city, shine
                  Am
Like the sun in a hurricane's eye
                      G
Diamonds drowning in brine

Dm
Come on and shine
Dm
Shine
Dm
Shine
Dm
Shine

Intro Riff (also played quickly as bridge between verses)
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