Save A City Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

GBeware the tides are riAmsing

In theC city of brotherly lDove

The Gblood red lights were Amflashin'

As the Ccellars rose up in a fDlood

And when theyEm drag you Dfrom the Amdepths of Cmud

TheyEm beat youC when you wereD down

Then they tossed ya in jail for a Chundred years

Save a city Dburn it Gdown

GThat'S what they sAmaid as tChey tore your Dhome to the gGround

Next verse has the same chord progression.

And when I was seven in surburban heaven,

the teachers and elders and police...

they'd cover my ears so I wouldn't hear

the gunshots soar through those city streets.

And if anyone questioned the liberty bomb,

or why the timers were even wound,

a scolding they'd earn, and so we soon learned:

to save a city, you burn it down.

And that's what they said

as they burned their

homes to the ground.

GSo many Empeople, Gso many Emlives

GSo many Ckept silent so Amthey may survDive

GRespect slauEmghtering cops Gand politicians theyEm lawed

GOr these gavels will Emcrush down your hCome and you'll be eAmxpected to Dapplaud

Then the chords go back to how they were in the begining.

So the crime was a trip to the market.

The sentence, a lifetime of hurt,

as she saw through tears,

her home of thirty of years

reduced to rubble and dirt.

And she cursed those who would approach her

and hold papers up to her face, and say,

"You should feel blessed you live in the U.S.

and not some other hellish place"

So take heed if you live in the city

in a part where the tourists wont's tread.

And beware if you maintain resistance

and choose not to be on of the led.

And if you're out in suburban gardens,

don't let them plant lies deep in your head,

'cause you too could come home to no home

or to find your family dead.

'Cause they've got this dream of a city

where no community unity can be found.

So stand up and save your neighbor hood.

Fuck the city, burn it down(x3)