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| Essentially the whole song is done on the following 8-bar progression: |
| F | F | Cm | Cm,Dm | Eb | Eb,F | Gm | Dm |
| 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 |