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
