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Artist: Starship
Canonical path: /starship/we-built-this-city
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We Built This City
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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We Built This City
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We built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
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
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio
Don't you remember
We built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
We built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
Someone's 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
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio
Don't you remember
We built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
We built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold, oh, then we just lost the beat
Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who writes the wrecking ball into our guitars
Don't tell us you need us, 'cos we're the ship of fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools
(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
On another gorgeous sunny Saturday, not seein' that bumper-to-bumper traffic)
Don't you remember (remember)
(It's your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps)
Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio
Don't you remember
We built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
We built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
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We built this city on rock an' roll
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