Dead Kennedys - The Great Wall lyrics
[Dead Kennedys - The Great Wall lyrics]
Great Wall of China
It's so big it's seen from outer space
Put there to keep the starving
Neighbors locked outside the gates
So what's changed today?
Empires hoard more than they need
And peasants threaten our comfort
We'll build a great wall around our power
Build a great wall around our power
Bankrupt LA's streetcar line so people
Pay more to drive
Plant strategic freeways to divide
Neighborhoods by color lines
We'd rather pay for riot squads than
Pump your ghetto back to life
We'll let your schools decay on purpose
To build a great wall around our power
Build a great wall around our power
Warlords in gray suit's take a different
Route to work each day
Secondhand green berets form the
Companies' private armies
We'll take all your gold but won't
Teach reading or feed your poor
The league of gentlemen would rather
Feed guns to puppet dictators
There's too many people in your
World and refugees are expensive
When they trickle down into our soil
We hunt them and arrest them
Classify them insane
Put them back on the next plane
To the waiting arms of the
Same death squads they fled
We've built a great wall around our power
Worldwide great wall around our power
Economic great wall around our power
Give us your poor, your tired, and your weak
We'll send 'em right back
To their certain death
It's so big it's seen from outer space
Put there to keep the starving
Neighbors locked outside the gates
So what's changed today?
Empires hoard more than they need
And peasants threaten our comfort
We'll build a great wall around our power
Build a great wall around our power
Bankrupt LA's streetcar line so people
Pay more to drive
Plant strategic freeways to divide
Neighborhoods by color lines
We'd rather pay for riot squads than
Pump your ghetto back to life
We'll let your schools decay on purpose
To build a great wall around our power
Build a great wall around our power
Warlords in gray suit's take a different
Route to work each day
Secondhand green berets form the
Companies' private armies
We'll take all your gold but won't
Teach reading or feed your poor
The league of gentlemen would rather
Feed guns to puppet dictators
There's too many people in your
World and refugees are expensive
When they trickle down into our soil
We hunt them and arrest them
Classify them insane
Put them back on the next plane
To the waiting arms of the
Same death squads they fled
We've built a great wall around our power
Worldwide great wall around our power
Economic great wall around our power
Give us your poor, your tired, and your weak
We'll send 'em right back
To their certain death