We built this city
We built this city on rock and roll (2x).

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 la bamba,
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 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 la bamba
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,ohhhhh and 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, crawling through your schools.

(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
Out on a gorgeous sunny Saturday I've seen 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).

Don't you remember.

Marconi plays la bamba,
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 (3x).

We built, we built this city yeah
We built this city 
We built, we built this city
(Repeat x5 - fadeing out).