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        Am        C
And when they drag you from the depths of mud
    Em       C             D
They beat you when you were down
                                  C
Then they tossed ya in jail for a hundred years
            D       G
Save a city burn it down
G                 Am      C             D            G
That'S what they said as they tore your home to the ground


     G                      Am
And when I was seven in surburban heaven,
      C                        D
the teachers and elders and police...
       G                Am
they'd cover my ears so I wouldn't hear
        C                             D
the gunshots soar through those city streets.
        Em       D            Am      C
And if anyone questioned the 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           D
So many kept silent so they can survive
         G           Em            G             Em
Respect slaughtering cops and politicians they lawed
G                    Em               C                  Am         D
Or these gavels will crush down your home and you'll be expected to applaud

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

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