Save A City

G                      Am
Beware the tides are rising
      C                   D
In the city of brotherly love
    G                     Am
The blood red lights were flashin'
       C                     D
As the cellars rose up in a flood
             Em        D        
And when they drag you from the 
Am        C
depths of mud
    Em       C             D
They beat you when you were down
Then they tossed ya in jail for a 
C
hundred years
            D       G
Save a city burn it down
G                 Am      C     
That'S what they said as they 
        D            G
tore your home to the ground


     G                      Am
And when I was seven in surburban 
heaven,
      C                    
the teachers and elders and 
    D
police...
       G                Am
they'd cover my ears so I wouldn't 
hear
        C                          
the gunshots soar through those 
   D
city streets.
        Em       D            Am 
And if anyone questioned the 
     C
liberty bomb,
            Em          C    D
or why the timers were even wound,
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                            C
a scolding they'd earn, and so we 
soon learned:
                     D       G
to save a city, you burn it down.
     G                Am
And that's what they said
         C
as they burned their
D              G
homes to the ground.

G       Em          G       Em
So many people and so many lives
     G        C         Am   
So many kept silent so they can 
        D
survive
         G           Em     
Respect slaughtering cops and 
       G             Em
politicians they lawed
G                    Em          
Or these gavels will crush down 
     C                  Am         
your home and you'll be expected to 
D
applaud

         G                    
So the crime was a trip to the 
  Am
market.
      C                      D
The sentence, a lifetime of hurt,
        G
as she saw through tears,
         Am
her home of thirty of years
  C                    D
reduced to rubble and dirt.
         Em          D       
And she cursed those who would 
     Am
approach her
C        Em     C          D
and hold papers up to her face, and 
say,
                                  C
"You should feel blessed you live in
 the U.S.
                    D       G
and not some other hellish place"

         G                      Am
So take heed if you live in the city
      C                            
in a part where the tourists wont's
 D
 tread.
       G                  
And beware if you maintain 
     Am
resistance
           C                   D
and choose not to be on of the led.
              Em       D    
And if you're out in suburban 
  Am
gardens,
C               Em         C    
don't let them plant lies deep 
        D
in your head,
                                  C
'cause you too could come home to no
 home
                 D      G
or to find your family dead.

               G                   
'Cause they've got this dream of a 
Am
city
            C             D
where no community unity can be 
found.
         G                     Am
So stand up and save your neighbor 
hood.
         C       D       G       
Fuck the city, burn it down(x3)
   (C)