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We Built This City Lyrics

Artist: Starship

Chorus:
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

Say you don't know me, or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night

Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

chorus

Someone's always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible, write us off the page

Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

chorus

It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street
Well if you got the toco, oh, then we just lost the beat

Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who writes the wrecking ball in two wild guitars
Don't tell us you need us, 'cause we're just simple fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools

(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
Out on a gorgeous sunny Saturday, I've seen that low amount of traffic)

Don't you remember (remember)

(Here's your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay, the city that rocks, the city that never sleeps)

Ma Coley plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this city, we built this city on rock an' roll

chorus repeats 2x

(We built, we built this city) built this city (we built, we built this city)
(repeats out)

Comments/Interpretations

by eGad! on 5/30/2008 1:16am
No wonder I feel suicidal after hearing this song!

by flirtyred on 6/6/2008 4:42pm
another oldie and definately goodie

by jslkwilham on 7/22/2008 7:52am
it's not Ma Coley - it's Marconi -If you're gonna make fun at least get the words right!

by godfrey kirxton -lesotho (africa) on 1/14/2009 4:31pm
reminds me of my childhood. i can't think of a more memorable song - all the staying up late, watching old movies and videos. i admire it to death. my kids will sure have this record.

by graces on 1/16/2009 8:40am
I agree it's Marconi

by johnnycee on 9/23/2009 6:49pm
It actually is "mamba", although it doesn't help make any more sense of the lyrics. I thought it was "who rides the wrecking ball into OUR guitars, but I may be wrong. I guess Bernie Taupin wrote these "lyrics", which makes plenty of sense. I put this song in the category of lots of fun to listen to, but don't look for any deeper meaning,like most Elton John songs.

by Reed Parker on 9/28/2009 8:32am
wow, lol

by seeatco on 12/28/2010 1:55am
Horrendously inaccurate.

by Courtney Lynn Jones on 9/6/2011 10:57pm
nice cause we are doing this song for PLAYBACK YAY YAY YAY

by Some History on 8/19/2012 9:50am
On the Marconi thing, as a matter of fact, the first person to actually transmit voice over radio was a Brazilian Priest named Roberto Landell de Moura. He did that 12 years before Marconi transmitted simple radio signals across the Atlantic.