Skyscraper
Bad Religion
This is how I play it using full chords. You can use Power Chords if you like and/or
transpose as needed.
Chords used:
Bm C G D Ebm Em D/F#
e:-2---0--3--2--6----0--2---|
b:-3---1--0--3--7----0--3---|
G:-4---0--0--2--8----0--2---|
D:-4---2--0--0--8----2--0---|
A:-2---3--2--x--6----2--0---|
E:-x---x--3--x--x----0--2---|
Verse1:
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Bm C G D Ebm
Em C G D
G D Em C
G D C
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/bad_religion/skyscraper_crd_ver_2.html ]
Bm C G D Ebm
Come let us make bricks and burn them hard
Em C G D
We'll build a city with a tower for the world
G D Em C
and climb so we can reach anything we may propose
G D C
Anything at all
Chorus:
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C Em D C
G D/F# Em D Bm C
G D C
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...C Em D C
Build me up, Tear me down like a skyscraper
G D/F# Em D Bm C
Build me up, then tear down those joining Walls
G D C
So they can't climb at all
Verse2:
I know why you tore it down that day
You thought, if you got caught
we'd all go away
Like a spoiled little baby
who can't come out to play
You had your revenge
Chorus: x1
Bridge:
G
Well madness reigned and paradise drown
D
When Babel's walls came crashing down
Em
Now the echoes roar for a story writ
C
That was hardly understood
G D C
and never any good
Chorus repeats and fades
