Tear It All Down Chords by Rick Springfield

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_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ _ _ [E] _ I walk through the streets of my old [A] home, _ trying to remember all the feelings, but [E] the
old feeling was that something sweeter comes [A] along _ [B] than any words.
_ [E] _ The spiky's in the fields where we used to run, smoke in the sky that blocks out the sun.
There's a hard day coming for us daughters [A] and sons. _
[B] Wake up, something's a [E] gonna change.
Tear it all down, it's started here and now.
Let it all out, so many souls will die.
Tear it all down, _ it [B] hurts and shatters.
I'm never gonna let _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ all of the treasures we own.
[A] _ _ God bless the house, the car, and the [E] tea, they built us a prison without [A] any locks. _
[B] Uh huh.
_ _ [E] _ And meanwhile the men who framed God [A] on their side, spit out their message.
[E] They'll be alright, while we look for idols inside [A] of a fashion _ _
[B] magazine.
There's a [E] gonna change.
Tear it all down, it's started here and now.
Let it all out, _ so many souls will die.
Tear it all down, it [B] hurts and shatters.
I'm never gonna let all of [E] the treasures we own.
Tear it all down, it's gonna keep us out.
Let it all out, so many souls will die.
Tear it all down, [B] it hurts and shatters.
I'm never gonna let all [E] of the treasures we own.
By him they [A] sit there in the shrine [B] of your embrace.
Your [C#] embrace, we touch the [G#m]
brine.
[A] Wander into [B] your ancient place.
The things of old.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ Look at my boy as he [A] sleeps.
_ An innocent face in the lions [E] arms.
If there was some way I could talk to my [A] father. _ _ _
[B] _ Uh [E] huh.
There's a bomb in the schoolhouse.
Why do they face [A] up the clock?
In the face [E] of disaster, we stay under rock.
You can't want your children to pay [A] for your sins.
[B] Wake up, _ something's gonna [Em] change.
Tear it all down, _ it's gonna [F#] fall.
Tear it all _ back again.
Tear it all down, but against [Em] the wall.
Tear it all, _ _ [E] _ _ _
tear it all down. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ When will you be glad in your place?
Tear it all down, it [B] hurts and shatters.
We're never gonna let _ _ _ [E] those, tear it all down.
I'm stuck in here now.
Let it all, _ go in the flame.
Tear it all down, it [B] hurts and shatters.
We're never gonna let [E] all of the kids sin.
Tear it all down, it's gonna keep us out.
Let it all back.
It's gonna keep us out.
Tear it all down.
We're [B] _ _
never gonna let _ [E] all of the kids tear it all down. _ _ _ _ _
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