We built this city

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

We built this city on rock and roll, oh



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

We got too many runaways eating up the night



Marconi plays the mamba, 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 mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?

We built this city, we built this city on rock an' 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?

And who writes the wrecking ball in two wild guitars?

Don't tell us you need us, 'cause we're just simple 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 mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?

We built this city, we built this city on rock an' 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

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

We built this city on rock and roll, oh!