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 uf 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, 'cos 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