Skyscraper Chords by Streetlight Manifesto

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[A] Come let us pick bricks and [E]
burn [B] them [C] hard.
_ [C#m] _
We'll build a [A] city with a tower [Bm] for [B] the [E] world.
And climb so we can reach [B] _ [G#] anything [C#m] we may [A] propose.
_ [E] _ _
_ [B] Anything [A] at _ all.
Build [C#m] me up, [B] tear me down [A] like a _ [E] skyscraper.
[C#m] Build me up, [B] then tear [G#] down these _ [A] shorting walls.
[E] So they [B] can't climb [A] at _ all.
_ [C#m] So they _ [B] can't climb [E] at all.
_ _ _ [G#] _ _
[A] Yeah I know why [E] you tore it down that [B] [C] day.
_ [C#m]
You [A] thought that if you got [E] caught we'd all [B] go away.
[E] Like a spoiled little [B] baby [C#m] who can't come out and [A] play.
_ [E] You [B] had your [A] revenge.
_ _ Build [C#m] me up, [B] tear me down [A] like a _
_ [E] skyscraper.
[C#m] Build me up, [B] then tear [G#] down these _ [A] shorting walls.
[E] So they [B] can't climb [A] at all.
_ _ [C#m] So they [B] can't climb [E] at all.
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_ _ _ When madness reigns, and paradise [B] drowned.
When Babel's walls came a-crushing [C#m] down.
And the echo's wrong for the story [A] lived that was hardly understood.
_ [E] And never [B] _ [A] any good.
So build [C#m] me up, [B] tear me down [A] like a _ [E] skyscraper.
Build [C#m] me up, [B] then tear down [G#] these _ [A] shorting walls.
[E] So they [B] can't climb [A] at all.
_ _ [C#m] So they can't [E] climb at all.
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