Intro
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Verse 1
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 (Gold rush) Digging for gold in my neighborhood 
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 (Gold rush) Where all the old buildings stood 
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 (Gold rush) And they keep digging it down and down 
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 (Gold rush) So that the cars can live underground 
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 (Gold rush) The swinging of a wrecking ball 
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 (Gold rush) Through these lath and plaster walls 
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 (Gold rush) Is letting all the shadows free 
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 (Gold rush) The ones I wish still followed me 
 
Chorus 1
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(Change) Followed me, followed me 
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(Please don't change) 
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(Stay) Followed me, followed me 
           F 
(Stay the same) 
 
Verse 2
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 (Gold rush) I remember a winter's night 
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 (Gold rush) We kissed beneath the street lamp light 
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 (Gold rush) Outside a bar near the record store 
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 (Gold rush) That have been condos for a year and more 
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 (Gold rush) Now that our haunts have taken flight 
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 (Gold rush) And been replaced with construction sites 
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 (Gold rush) Oh, how I feel like a stranger here 
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 (Gold rush) Searching for something that's disappeared 
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 (Gold rush) Digging for gold in my neighborhood 
D#/F 
 (Gold rush) For what they say is the greater good 
A#/F 
 (Gold rush) But all I see is a long goodbye 
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 (Gold rush) A requiem for a skyline 
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 (Gold rush) It seems I never stopped losing you 
D#/F 
 (Gold rush) Because every dive becomes something new 
A#/F 
 (Gold rush) And all our ghosts get swept away 
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 (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way 
 
Chorus 2
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(Change) Be this way, be this way 
                F 
(Please don't change) 
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(Stay) Be this way, be this way 
           F 
(Stay the same) 
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(Cranes) Be this way, be this way 
             F 
(Devour the light) 
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(Strange) Be this way, be this way 
       F 
(Appetite) 
 
Bridge
Fsus4 
   And I've ascribed these monuments 
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   A false sense of permanence 
Fsus4 
   I've placed faith in geography 
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   To hold you in my memory 
Fsus4 
 (Gold rush) I'm sifting through these wreckage piles 
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 (Gold rush) Through the rubble of bricks and wires 
Csus4 
 (Gold rush) Looking for something I'll never find 
Csus4 
 (Gold rush) Looking for something I'll never find 
 
Verse 3
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 (Gold rush) Digging for gold in my neighborhood 
D#/F 
 (Gold rush) Where all the old buildings stood 
A#/F 
 (Gold rush) And they keep digging it down and down 
F 
 (Gold rush) So that the cars can live underground 
F 
 (Gold rush) It seems I never stopped losing you 
D#/F 
 (Gold rush) Because every dive becomes something new 
A#/F 
 (Gold rush) And all our ghosts get swept away 
F 
 (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way 
 
Outro
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(Change, please don't change) 
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 (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way 
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 (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way 
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 (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way 
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 (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way 
 F 
(Stay, stay the same) 
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 (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way 
D#/F 
 (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way 
A#/F 
 (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way 
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 (Gold rush) It didn't used to be this way 
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Change (Gold rush) 
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 (Gold rush) 
              A#/F 
Please don't change (Gold rush) 
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 (Gold rush) 
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Stay (Gold rush) 
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 (Gold rush) 
         A#/F 
Stay the same (Gold rush) 
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 (Gold rush)