Tom: G
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,
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)
