Biography:
Hawkwind is an English rock band and one of the earliest space rock groups. The band was formed by ex-busker and blues man Dave Brock in Ladbroke Grove, London, who intended to marry simple three-chord rock with experimental electronic music. He cites his influences for the band at the time as The Moody Blues, Steve Miller Band and the krautrock scene of Kraftwerk, Neu! and particularly Can.
The band was formed in 1969 by visionary Dave Brock and although it has been subject to numerous line-up changes it is still led by him.
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Hawkwind - High Rise
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Essentially the whole song is done on the following 8-bar progression:
[F][F][Cm][Cm,Dm][Eb][Eb,F][Gm][Dm]
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.
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[F]Flat block [F]
Of [Cm]two dimensions [Cm]
[Eb]Neon totem pole [Eb]to the sky
Keeping [Gm]scores of people [Dm]stacked up so high
A[F]bove the ground [F]
But all they can [Cm]hear is the sound [Cm]
Of the [Eb]wind in the an[Eb]tennae
It's a [Gm]human zoo
A [Dm]suicide machine
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
Living in a [Gm]high rise [Dm]
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
All stacked up in a [Gm]high rise block [Dm]
[F]Childhood [F]
Of [Cm]concrete cube shaped [Cm]
A [Eb]flypaper stuck with [Eb]human life
[Gm]Caged up rage
[Dm]Swarming all the time
[F]Tear out the telephones
[F]Rip up the pages of di[Cm]rectories
And [Cm]wreck all these
High speed [Eb]lifts and ele[Eb]vators
Be a [Gm]sabotage rebel with[Dm]out a cause
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
Living in a [Gm]high rise [Dm]
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
All stacked up in a [Gm]high rise block [Dm]
[F]Starfish [F]
Of [Cm]human blood shape [Dm]
[Eb]Tentacles of [Eb]human gore
[Gm]Spread out on the pavement from the [Dm]99th floor
Well [F]somebody said that he [F]jumped
But we [Cm]know he was pushed [Cm]
He was [Eb]just like you [Eb]might have been
On the [Gm]99th floor of a [Dm]suicide machine
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
Living in a [Gm]high rise [Dm]
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
All stacked up in a [Gm]high rise block [Dm]
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Essentially the whole song is done on the following 8-bar progression:
[F][F][Cm][Cm,Dm][Eb][Eb,F][Gm][Dm]
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.
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[F]Flat block [F]
Of [Cm]two dimensions [Cm]
[Eb]Neon totem pole [Eb]to the sky
Keeping [Gm]scores of people [Dm]stacked up so high
A[F]bove the ground [F]
But all they can [Cm]hear is the sound [Cm]
Of the [Eb]wind in the an[Eb]tennae
It's a [Gm]human zoo
A [Dm]suicide machine
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
Living in a [Gm]high rise [Dm]
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
All stacked up in a [Gm]high rise block [Dm]
[F]Childhood [F]
Of [Cm]concrete cube shaped [Cm]
A [Eb]flypaper stuck with [Eb]human life
[Gm]Caged up rage
[Dm]Swarming all the time
[F]Tear out the telephones
[F]Rip up the pages of di[Cm]rectories
And [Cm]wreck all these
High speed [Eb]lifts and ele[Eb]vators
Be a [Gm]sabotage rebel with[Dm]out a cause
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
Living in a [Gm]high rise [Dm]
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
All stacked up in a [Gm]high rise block [Dm]
[F]Starfish [F]
Of [Cm]human blood shape [Dm]
[Eb]Tentacles of [Eb]human gore
[Gm]Spread out on the pavement from the [Dm]99th floor
Well [F]somebody said that he [F]jumped
But we [Cm]know he was pushed [Cm]
He was [Eb]just like you [Eb]might have been
On the [Gm]99th floor of a [Dm]suicide machine
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
Living in a [Gm]high rise [Dm]
[F]High rise [F]
Living in a [Cm]high rise [Cm]
[Eb]High rise [Eb]
All stacked up in a [Gm]high rise block [Dm]
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