High Rise

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