C#m        A
Beyond the ocean
F#m             G#sus4      G#
A lighthouse is waiting for me
C#m                A
The Great Chain in motion
F#m         G#sus4       G#
Beneath the waves of the sea
C#m
Into the city
A
All good things flow
    F#m
The sweat on your brow
        G#sus4       G#
Is what you reap and sow
C#m
Forge your own fortune
     A
From salt and from sand
F#m
No gods or kings
G#sus4  G#
        Only man


[Verse 1]
C#m
Folks told me, son, you won the gene pool
C#m
So I guess I had a head start on these fools
C#m
Doesn't take a Winter Blast for Jack to keep cool
C#m
But isolation in the deep blue can be cruel
C#m
I descend the depths fathom by fathom
          C#m
As if the ocean opened up and I've been cast in a chasm
       C#m
Upon a sweeping seascape, genetic accidents happened
                C#m
But don't blame EVE, the cause of the fall had to be ADAM
C#m
If you believe the sweat of your brow oughtta be yours
          C#m
Listen to Andrew Ryan, the philosophical entrepreneur
            C#m
He might've put me on blast, but I'll get past his thugs
  C#m
I asked who Fontaine was, and Atlas Shrugged
C#m
Welcome to Rapture, where you can manufacture
   C#m
Evolution: natural selection's happening faster
         C#m
Were you shocked when I said I was nothing less than electric
     C#m
This city's dead but I bet that I can resurrect it
C#m
An engine never rests in Hephaestus
       C#m
Like a Lazarus Vector, giving breath to the breathless (Gasp)
    C#m
I'm getting quite dependent on medkits
       C#m
I just met a demented doctor obsessed with perfection
    C#m
You promised me pretty, Steinman, why did I get this?
  C#m
I treated your ugliness like an infection!
       C#m
That's why I took a wrench when I went to the dentist
        C#m
And my smile was dazzlin' after bashin' his head in
C#m
Collectin' weapons, makin' effective inventions
              A
I'll make you vanish like Houdini when I pump lead in you Leadheads
  F#m
I call it artwork, want it censored? Forget it
        G#
I got a killer's disposition, I guess it's genetic, death is a choice that I rejected!


[Hook]
C#m            A
Rise, Rapture, rise
   F#m                       G#sus4  G#
We turn our hopes up to the skies
C#m            A
Rise, Rapture, rise
         F#m                       G#sus4  G#
We'll go down with our sinking paradise


[Verse 2]
C#m
Roll up my sleeves, so blood will not get on'em
C#m
These shackles remind me I started from the bottom
C#m
Hello little fish, have you had your cherry popped?
C#m
I'm a grown man, damnit, I ain't scared of shots
C#m
Shots shots shots shots now my veins are on fire
   C#m
Rearrangin' DNA? Sounds like playing with fire
C#m
Sciences are practiced with a lack of moral guidance
C#m
Splicers seek to satisfy their sick sadistic vices
C#m
Victims become villains, angry vandals turn to violence
C#m
Sickly children sticking by their less than gentle giants
C#m
Minds manipulated by the parasite inside'em
       C#m
But if you're a parasite in Ryan's eyes, you're put to silence
    C#m
The great and strong will not yield to the weak and feeble
       C#m
Better change your DNA if you'd like to fight as equals
C#m
Harvest ADAM, feed on EVE, it doesn't make me evil
        C#m
Because my survival rides on getting Power to the People
C#m
Dozens of desperate denizens deal with deprivation
    C#m
But let's be fair, laissez-faire, forget the regulations
C#m
This economy's perfectly working without you
    C#m
Now let me fill my craving at the Circus of Values
C#m
Drawn to this city, like a moth to a flame
        C#m
Fallin' from grace, swallowed by a watery grave
         C#m
Now I'll frolic on this stage, I'm a part in a play
           C#m
Like I was nothing but a puppet, just a pawn in the game
C#m                              G#
Lookin' for something to set me apart from a slave


[Hook]
C#m            A
Rise, Rapture, rise
   F#m                       G#sus4  G#
We turn our hopes up to the skies
C#m            A
Rise, Rapture, rise
         F#m                       G#sus4  G#
We'll go down with our sinking paradise,    rise


[Bridge]
C#m        A                                F#m
Rapture is bleeding through cracks that are leaking
          G#m           G#sus4          C#m
Dwindling memories tell secrets they're keeping
          A                      F#m
Demons disguised by benign masquerades
             G#m          G#
Angels climb out of their graves


[Verse 3]
C#m
Mind over matter is the practice I'm preachin'
    C#m
How else could I achieve feats of telekinesis
           C#m
And I'm an expert at hacking past your defense
          C#m
Then I'll attack you like a swarm from a hornet nest (Buzz off!)
    C#m
The Gatherer's Garden ain't runnin' short of guests
          C#m
I've been cleaning'em out, I can afford the best
            C#m
Hey! Do you wish your waist was slimmer? (Yes!) Or your chin was chiseled more? (Huh?)
C#m
Careful, vanity could send us into civil war
C#m
In a utopia, who's gonna wanna scrub the toilets?
    C#m
The people in Apollo Square got no other choices
  C#m
I know how this is gonna end, but I don't wanna spoil it
    C#m
You try to seize my city? Time that I destroy it!
C#m
Just relax, Big Daddy, I command ya
C#m
Strike a pose, smile for the camera
C#m
I think objectively, just like Ayn Rand does
C#m
Attention: will the real Fontaine stand up?
C#m
A man chooses, unlike a slave
    C#m
Who never strays from the path that his master paves
C#m
Follows every order and does everything they say
C#m
Now Would You Kindly... Obey?
C#m
Obey, obey
C#m
Obey, obey
C#m
Obey, obey
C#m
Obey, obey


[Hook]
C#m            A
Rise, Rapture, rise
   F#m                       G#sus4  G#
We turn our hopes up to the skies
C#m            A
Rise, Rapture, rise
         F#m                       G#sus4  G#
We'll go down with our sinking paradise


[Outro]
C#m     A
My city is thriving (Rise, Rapture, rise)
F#m           G#sus4      G#
Your allies - choose them wisely (We turn our hopes up to the skies)
C#m         A
Our Rapture is rising (Rise, Rapture, rise)
F#m            G#sus4    G#
Stand with us, Would You Kindly? (We'll go down with our sinking paradise)
C#m
Rise