Hawkwind – High Rise (Guitar Live)

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[Verse 1]
  E             Bm           C# D
Flat block of two dimensions

 D                       E
Neon totem pole to the sky

          F#m              C#
Keeping scores of people stacked up so high
[Verse 2]
  E
Above the ground

              Bm
All they can hear is the sound

C#   D  E
Of the wind in the antennae

        F#m          C#
It's a human zoo, a suicide machine
[Verse 3]
  E           Bm                   C#  D
Childhood of concrete, cube-shaped

    D                        E
A flypaper stuck with human life

 F#m             C#
Caged up rage, swarming all the time
[Verse 4]
 E
Tear out the telephones

                       Bm
Rip up the pages of directories

                    C# D
And wreck all these

 D                       E
High speed lifts and elevators

      F#m               C#
Be a sabotage rebel without a cause
[Chorus]
 E
High rise (living in a high rise)

 Bm                              C# D
High rise (living in a high rise)

 D        E
High rise

      F#m            C#
All stacked up in a high rise block
[Verse 5]
  E          Bm               C# D
Starfish of human blood shape

 D                    E
Tentacles of human gore

   F#m                              C#
Spread out on the pavement from the 99th floor
[Verse 6]
      E
Well somebody said he jumped

         Bm
But we know he was pushed

 C# D   D                        E
He was just like you might have been

       F#m              C#
On the 99th floor of a suicide machine