Riff: G#m
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Intro: G#m
G#m
There's an old shed at the end of an overgrown driveway
And years ago that shed collapsed and fell
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Years before that there's a withered dog chained up there
G#m
I saved him maybe he saved me as well
D# C#
Now he's gone and I think I've come undone
G#m C#m G#m
It's midnight in the city of destruction
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G#m
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
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La la la la la la la la
G#m C#m G#m
La la la la la la la la
G#m
There's music in the air and suites abandoned
They're singing 'cross farm in the evening breeze
C#m
But there's someone in the rows who's unwanted
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And now they cut the faithful from the trees
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And the bulldozers move in one by one
G#m C#m G#m
And it's midnight in the city of destruction
Chorus
G#m
I lost my guitar my home my hope and my good fortune
I lost my grandfather two neighbors and my friend
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I pray that God myself will come and drown the president
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If the levees break again
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Now we're standing at the crossroads waitin' for instruction
G#m C#m G#m
And it's midnight in the city of destruction
Chorus
G#m
There's a secret prison somewhere south of
And in that secret prison there is a secret cell
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And the prisoners bound and burned blinded and beaten
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Still that secret prisoner keeps his secret well
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Turn out the lights cause for one night that's enough son
G#m C#m G#m
It's midnight in the city of destruction
Chorus