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 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 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 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 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 coming through your schools i m looking out over that golden gate bridge on another gorgeous sunny saturday and i m seeing that bumper to bumper traffic don t you remember it 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 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 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 yeah we built we built this city we built we built this city yeah we built we built this city we built we built this city yeah we built we built this city we built we built this city yeah we built we built this city we built we built this city yeah11