Key: F# minor
Verse 1
Em
C
Esus4
Em
C
Part
of the life in the city of gold
D
Em
A
He'd left and let nobody know
Em
C
Gone were the towels
he had known from a child
D
Em
A
Along with the dream of a life
B
E
F#
He traveled the wide open road,
the blinkered arcade
D#m
F#
C#m
In search of another to share in his life
D#m
C#
G#
B
C#m
But nowhere, everyone
C#sus4
C#m
They got no horns
and they got no tail
F#m
A
They don't even know
B
Bsus4
of our existence
B
C#m
Am I wrong to believe in the city of gold?
F#m
A
B
It lies there in the distance
Em
C
D
As they led him away to a cage
Em
A
Beasts that can talk read the signs
Em
C
The creatures they pushed
And they broadened his frame
D
Em
A
And questioned his story again
B
E
But soon they grew bored of their prey
D#m
F#
More like a freak
C#m
D#m
Our publicity stunt
C#
G#
B
Oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh
C#m
F#
Oh -oh -oh -oh -oh -oh
C#m
They got no horns and they got no tail
F#m
A
B
Bsus4
They don't believe our existence
C#m
Come around to believe in the city of gold
F#m
A
B
They rise in the deep distance
Bsus4
B
We cry in broke
C#
C#sus4
C#
Down the door, out the cage
C#m
E
And march on out
Wa -ee -wa -ee -wa -ee -wa
B
F#
The gravity creature
B
D#
By the scruff of its neck pointing out
D#
Bbm
Db
Of your weak imagination
Ab
Cm
Lie the noble towers
Eb
Bbm
Eb
Of my city, bright and gold
Cm
Bb
Db
and show you a living story
Ab
B
C#
Let me show you others such as me
F#m
Bsus4
Why did I ever leave?
A
B
C#m
And come around to
believe in the city of gold
F#m
A
B
It lies in the deep distance
Bsus4
Em
C
He cried and wept
D
Esus4
D
Em
C
And so we set out
Em
A
And his crazy description of home
F#m
A
Em
C
Af ter many days journey
Where the beast gazed
Em
A
abroad and cried out
B
E
We followed his gaze and we thought
F#
D#m
That maybe we saw a spiral go
F#
C#m
D#m
C#
Ab
No, a trick of the eye, that's all
B
C#m
But the beast was gone and
C#sus4
C#m
They got no horns
and they got no tail
F#m
A
B
Bsus4
They don't even know about distance
C#m
I'm around to believe in the city of gold
F#m
B
It lies in deep distance
Outro 1
Bsus4
B
Bsus4
B
Em
C
Em
C
C
C
C
C
C
C
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