**** big_city - operation ivy **
**** alex gonzalez **
(riff 1) intro
(riff 2) intro
(riff 1) intro
(variant 1) intro
concrete and chaos rise up (riff 1)
spiderweb across the land like a giant rash. (riff 2)
forests lie down below (riff 1)
foundations of buildings in a bed of ash. (riff 2)
people here got it real good, (riff 1)
'cuz the glass towers bring prosperity. (riff 2)
and other people starve in the street (riff 1)
concrete knows no sympathy. (variant 2)
FGC
big city, big city
FGC
big city, big city
FGC
big city, big city
FC
big city, it's a wishing well.
FC
big city, it's a living hell.
this town, it's fucking insane: (riff 1)
one will starve and another will gain. (riff 2)
it's like a giant mechanical brain, (riff 1)
and the people are cells and the streets are veins. (riff 2)
FGC
it thinks only of itself,
FGC
thousand limbs crawling it expands and grows,
FGC
and still the concrete sits there,
FGC
sits there stark gray and cold.
(riff 3)(second half only)
(riff 3)(second half only)
and i think i wanna be a brick layer, (riff 3)
so i can put another brick in the wall. (riff 3)
it's stanitary, rational, and happy and sane. (riff 3)
growing like a flower to surround us all. (riff 3)
riff 1
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variant 1
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variant 2
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riff 2
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riff 3 (first half) (second half)
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-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-5-5-5-5------ --3----3----3-3--5----8---3-3--3--3--
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THE END
**** big_city - operation ivy **
**** alex gonzalez **