Hawkwind - High Rise
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Essentially the whole song is done on the following 8-bar progression:
Dm,Fm
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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FF
Flat block
CmCm
Of two dimensions
EbEb
Neon totem pole to the sky
GmDm
Keeping scores of people stacked up so high
FF
Above the ground
CmCm
But all they can hear is the sound
EbEb
Of the wind in the antennae
Gm
It's a human zoo
Dm
A suicide machine
FF
High rise
CmCm
Living in a high rise
EbEb
High rise
GmDm
Living in a high rise
FF
High rise
CmCm
Living in a high rise
EbEb
High rise
GmDm
All stacked up in a high rise block
FF
Childhood
CmCm
Of concrete cube shaped
EbEb
A flypaper stuck with human life
Gm
Caged up rage
Dm
Swarming all the time
F
Tear out the telephones
FCm
Rip up the pages of directories
Cm
And wreck all these
EbEb
High speed lifts and elevators
GmDm
Be a sabotage rebel without a cause
FF
High rise
CmCm
Living in a high rise
EbEb
High rise
GmDm
Living in a high rise
FF
High rise
CmCm
Living in a high rise
EbEb
High rise
GmDm
All stacked up in a high rise block
FF
Starfish
CmDm
Of human blood shape
EbEb
Tentacles of human gore
GmDm
Spread out on the pavement from the 99th floor
FF
Well somebody said that he jumped
CmCm
But we know he was pushed
EbEb
He was just like you might have been
GmDm
On the 99th floor of a suicide machine
FF
High rise
CmCm
Living in a high rise
EbEb
High rise
GmDm
Living in a high rise
FF
High rise
CmCm
Living in a high rise
EbEb
High rise
GmDm
All stacked up in a high rise block