[Intro riff]
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   [Verse 1]
C
I would love to be the lucky one on Chill Avenue
Am
Who could keep your hear warm when ice has turned it blue
    G
But beggin' sleeping losers as they turn in for the night
    C
I'm looking back for home and I can see the lights

C
I should be jumpin' shoutin' that I made it all this way
     Am
From Camden Town Station to 44th and 8th
    G
Not many make it this far and many say we're great
    C
But just like them we walk on an' we can't escape our fate


   [Pre Chorus]
Am                 F      G
Can't you hear the sighing
C        F/C   C   F
Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue
     G                         Csus4  C
Both say they needed something new


   [Chorus]
       C
So I'm standing at the gates of the West
       Em
I burn money at the lights of the sign
                 F     G               C
The city casts a shadow of the perfect crime

I'm standing at the gates of the East
          Em
I take my pulse and the pulse of my friend
                 F      G               C
The city casts a shadow, will I see you again?


   [Verse 2]
C
The immigrants an' remnants of all the glory years
    Am
Are clustered around the bar again for another round of beers
       G
Little Richard's in the kitchen playing spoons and plates
     C
He's telling the waitress he's great

C
Ah say I know somewhere back'n'forth in time
Am
Out on the dustbowls, deep in the roulette mine
   G
Or in a ghetto cellar only yesterday
          C                                Am
There's a move into the future for the U.S.A.


   [Pre Chorus]
            F     G
I hear them crying
C        F/C   C   F
Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue
     G                         Csus4   C
Both say they needed something new


   [Chorus]
       C
So I'm standing at the gates of the West
       Em
I burn money at the lights of the sign
                 F     G               C
The city casts a shadow of the perfect crime

I'm standing at the gates of the East
          Em
I take my pulse and the pulse of my friend
                 F      G               C
The city casts a shadow, will I see you again?


   [Instrumental]
C5    G5    A5   F5
C5    G5    A5   F5
C5    G5    A5   F5
C


   [Outro]
C                                Em
Standing at the gates of the West
       F      G      C
In the shadow again
                                 Em
Standing at the gates of the West
       G      C
In the shadow again
                                 Em
Standing at the gates of the West
       F  G   C     Em
In the shadow again
       F  G   C     Cmaj7
In the shadow again