Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

Say you don't know me, or recognize my face

 Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place

Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight

 Too many runaways eating up the night

Chorus

Marconi plays the Mamba,

Listen to the radio

Don't you remember?

We built this city

We built this city on rock and roll!

 We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

Verse 2

Someone always playing corporation games

 Who cares they're always changing corporation names

We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage

 They call us irresponsible, write us off the page

Bridge

 These are notes played through this bridge :

It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street

Police have got the choke hold,ohhhhh and we just lost the beat

Verse 3

Who counts the money ,underneath the bar

 Who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars

Don't tell us you need us, 'cause we're the ship of fools

Looking for America, crawling through your schools

Don't you remember ...

Chorus

Same as before)

Marconi plays the Mamba,

Listen to the radio -

Don't you remember?

We built this city,

We built this city on rock and roll

We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

We built, we built this city yeah

 We built this city

We built, we built this city

(Repeat x5 - fadeing out)