Lyrics we built this city on rock and roll

We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock and 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

Marconi plays the mambo, listen to the radio
Don't you remember?
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll

We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock and roll

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

Marconi plays the mambo, listen to the radio
Don't you remember?
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll

We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock and roll

It's just another Sunday
In a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold, oh
Then we just lost the beat

Who counts the money underneath the bar?
Who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars?
Don't tell us you need us 'cause we're the ship of fools
Looking for America, coming through your schools

(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge on another gorgeous sunny Saturday and I'm seein' that bumper to bumper 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.)

Marconi plays the mambo, listen to the radio
Don't you remember?
We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll

We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city (oh)
We built this city on rock and roll
Built this city
We built this city on rock and roll

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

Writer(s): Bernie Taupin, Peter Wolf, Dennis Lambert, Martin George Page, Daniel Dee Snider, Peter F Wolf, Bernard Taupin

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Lyrics we built this city on rock and roll

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Written by: Martin George Page, Bernard J. P. Taupin, Dennis Lambert, Peter F. Wolf

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What is the meaning of We Built This City on Rock and Roll?

If you heard the original demo, you wouldn't even recognize the song." When we spoke with Martin Page in 2014, he explained: "To me, 'We Built This City' is live music's been pulled away from the streets of LA. We want to get back to rock and roll and play it live.

What city are they talking about in We Built This City on Rock and Roll?

Song co-writers Martin Page and Bernie Taupin have stated that the song is about the decline of live performance clubs in Los Angeles during the 1980s.

What city are they singing about in We Built This City?

“Everybody thought we were talking about San Francisco [as the city built by rock 'n' roll],” she told me. “First of all, it's written by a British guy about Los Angeles sung by a San Francisco group. It's talking about the clubs closing, or being closed down, in Los Angeles.

What movie is We Built This City from?

With We Built This City, for about a minute, Rock of Ages seemed just a little bit smarter than the rest of the film might have you believe.