Intro Riff (also played quickly as bridge between verses)
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[Verse 1]
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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
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It can get to be hard to swallow

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 3]
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
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that it's only a broken heart

[Verse 4]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Outro]
Dm
Come on and shine
Dm
Shine
Dm
Shine
Dm
Shine