G5 A5 Beware the tides are rising C5 D5 In the city of brotherly love G5 A5 The blood red lights were flashin' C5 D5 As the cellars rose up in a flood E5 D5 A5 C5 And when they drag you from the depths of mud E5 C5 D5 And beat you when you were down C5 Then they tossed ya in jail for a hundred years D5 G5 Save a city burn it down G5 A5 C5 G5 That'S what they said as they tore your home to the ground 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. G5 E5 G5 E5 So many people, so many lives G5 C5 A5 D5 So many kept silent so they may survive G5 E5 G5 E5 Respect slaughtering cops and politicians they lawed G5 C5 A5 D5 Or these gavels will crush your home and you'll be expected to applaud 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) Pretty simple song, fun to play acoustic.
