We Built This City

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We Built This City by Starship

About We Built This City

"We Built This City" is a song written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf, and originally recorded by the group Starship and released as its debut single on November 10, 1985. The lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin, best known for his longtime collaboration with Elton John. The song features Mickey Thomas and Grace Slick on lead vocals, and the single version reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on November 16, 1985, and also number twelve in the United Kingdom. .

We Built This City Lyrics

[00:01.04] We built this city
[00:04.57] We built this city on rock and roll
[00:08.02] Built this city
[00:11.27] We built this city on rock and roll
[00:16.86]
[00:31.28] Say you don't know me or recognize my face
[00:37.47] Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
[00:44.35] Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
[00:51.04] Too many runaways eating up the night
[00:57.74] Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?
[01:06.20] We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
[01:14.59] We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
[01:21.24] Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
[01:29.93]
[01:35.89] Someone's always playing corporation games
[01:42.84] Who cares, they're always changing corporation names
[01:49.48] We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage
[01:55.81] They call us irresponsible, write us off the page
[02:02.87] Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?
[02:10.85] We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
[02:19.37] We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
[02:26.02] Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
[02:34.80]
[02:39.16] It's just another Sunday in a tired old street
[02:44.93] Police have got the choke hold, oh, then we just lost the beat
[02:54.83] Who counts the money underneath the bar?
[03:02.54] Who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars?
[03:08.90] Don't tell us you need us 'cause we're the ship of fools
[03:15.90] Looking for America, coming through your schools
[03:22.51] (I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge)
[03:24.42] (On another gorgeous sunny Saturday)
[03:26.04] (And I'm seein' that bumper to bumper traffic)
[03:27.70] Don't you remember? (Remember)
[03:32.48] (Here's your favorite radio station)
[03:33.27] (In your favorite radio city, the city by the bay)
[03:35.36] (The city that rocks, the city that never sleeps)
[03:37.80] Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?
[03:46.33] We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
[03:54.35] We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
[04:01.06] Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
[04:07.99] Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
[04:14.39] Built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
[04:22.61] We built, we built this city, yeah (Built this city)
[04:28.30] We built, we built this city
[04:30.97] We built, we built this city yeah (Built this city)
[04:34.14] We built, we built this city
[04:37.40] We built, we built this city yeah (Built this city)
[04:42.50] We built, we built this city (Built this city)
[04:44.54]

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