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Essentially the whole song is done on the following 8-bar progression:

Cm,Dm

Eb,F

where the chord change in the 4th and 6th bars is on the 4th beat of the bar.

Note I've only put in the chord at the start of each bar below.

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	F	F
	Flat block

	Cm	Cm
Of	two dimensions

	Eb	Eb
	Neon totem pole	to the sky

	Gm	Dm
Keeping	scores of people	stacked up so high

	F	F
A	bove the ground

	Cm	Cm
But all they can	hear is the sound

	Eb	Eb
Of the	wind in the an	tennae

	Gm
It's a	human zoo

	Dm
A	suicide machine

	F	F
	High rise

	Cm	Cm
Living in a	high rise

	Eb	Eb
	High rise

	Gm	Dm
Living in a	high rise

	F	F
	High rise

	Cm	Cm
Living in a	high rise

	Eb	Eb
	High rise

	Gm	Dm
All stacked up in a	high rise block

	F	F
	Childhood

	Cm	Cm
Of	concrete cube shaped

	Eb	Eb
A	flypaper stuck with	human life

	Gm
	Caged up rage

	Dm
	Swarming all the time

	F
	Tear out the telephones

	F	Cm
	Rip up the pages of di	rectories

	Cm
And	wreck all these

	Eb	Eb
High speed	lifts and ele	vators

	Gm	Dm
Be a	sabotage rebel with	out a cause

	F	F
	High rise

	Cm	Cm
Living in a	high rise

	Eb	Eb
	High rise

	Gm	Dm
Living in a	high rise

	F	F
	High rise

	Cm	Cm
Living in a	high rise

	Eb	Eb
	High rise

	Gm	Dm
All stacked up in a	high rise block

	F	F
	Starfish

	Cm	Dm
Of	human blood shape

	Eb	Eb
	Tentacles of	human gore

	Gm	Dm
	Spread out on the pavement from the	99th floor

	F	F
Well	somebody said that he	jumped

	Cm	Cm
But we	know he was pushed

	Eb	Eb
He was	just like you	might have been

	Gm	Dm
On the	99th floor of a	suicide machine

	F	F
	High rise

	Cm	Cm
Living in a	high rise

	Eb	Eb
	High rise

	Gm	Dm
Living in a	high rise

	F	F
	High rise

	Cm	Cm
Living in a	high rise

	Eb	Eb
	High rise

	Gm	Dm
All stacked up in a	high rise block

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High Rise

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