Ghetto Defendant

Clash lyrics



/ allen ginsberg lyrics



/ do the worm on the accropolis

/ slamdance the cosmopolis

/ enlighten the populace



Hungry darkness of living

Who will thirst in the pit?

/ hooked in metropolis

She spent a lifetime deciding

How to run from it

/ addicts of metropolis

Once fate had a witness

And the years seemed like friends

/ girlfriends

Her babies can dream

But dreams begin like the end

/ shot into eternity

/ methadone kitty

/ iron serenity



Ghetto defendant

It is heroin pity

Not tear gas nor baton charge

That stops you taking the city



/ strung out committee

Walled out of the city

Clubbed down from uptown

Sprayed pest from the nest

Run out to barrio town

/the guards are itchy

Forced to watch at the feast

Then sweep up the night

Flipped pieces of coin

/ broken bottles

Exchanged for birthright

/ grafted in a jiffy



/ strung out committee

/ sitting pretty

/ graphed in a jiffy

/ no pity, pretty



The ghetto prince of gutter poets

Was bounced out of the room

/ jean arthur rimbaud

By the bodyguards of greed

For disturbing the tomb

/ 1873

His words like flamethrowers

/ paris commune

Burnt the ghettos in their chests

His face was painted whiter

And he was laid to rest

/ died in marseille

/ buried in charleville

/ shut up



Soap floods oil in water

All churn in the wake

On the great ship of progress

The crew can't find the brake

Klaxons are blaring

The admiral snores command

Submarines boil in oceans

While the armies fight with suns




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