Electric City chords by Firewater

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: EADGBE

Intro Riff (also played quickly as bridge between verses)
e|-------------|
b|-------------|
G+G|--0-1-0------|
D MajorD|--------1-0--|
A augmentedA|-------------|
E MajorE|-------------|


Verse 1:
DmDm
You were thrown into a tin can,
DmDm
and you learned how to beg and borrow
DmDm
And you grew into a thin man,
DmDm
In the land of success, sin and sorrow
C majorC
Now you're sleeping in a suitcase
C majorC
With a pill bottle for a pillow
G+G
When you're hanging by a shoelace
G+G
It can get to be hard to swallow

Verse 2:
DmDm
When you're spinning on the subway
DmDm
Naked lights dancing on the river
DmDm
No you're never gonna leave her
DmDm
Though you think someday that you might forgive her
C majorC
Slipping into a slow dive
C majorC
Cold black water makes you follow
G+G
Swimming into a spiral
FF
Still you're singing

Chorus:
DmDm            C majorC
Shine, electric city, shine
           A minorAm
In the cool of your emptiness
          G+G
Around the curve of your spine
      DmDm          C majorC
Come on and shine, electric city, shine
          A minorAm
Like six thousand wings in the sky
            G+G
Over the scene of the crime

Verse 3:
DmDm
When you come to an ending
DmDm
Never reaching no conclusion
DmDm
And you're sick of bending
DmDm
And nursing every fresh contusion
C majorC
When you're lying in the soft arms
C majorC
Of a silent ambulance that's speeding
G+G
And you're trying to tell the doctor
G+G
that it's only a broken heart

Verse 4:
DmDm
You don't have to be a soldier to fight
DmDm
But you'd better have a killer in you
DmDm
You don't have to be a poet to die
DmDm
It's the little things that kill you
C majorC
Everybody gets a bad break
C majorC
A augmentedA little hit of pain and sorrow
G+G
Just forget about tomorrow
FF
Keep on singing

Chorus:
DmDm            C majorC
Shine, electric city, shine
           A minorAm
From the back of the cold beyond
           G+G
Out to the end of the line
DmDm                C majorC
Come on and shine, electric city, shine
         A minorAm
Like the sun in a hurricane's eye
           G+G
Diamonds drowning in brine

Outro:
DmDm
Come on and shine
DmDm
Shine
DmDm
Shine
DmDm