The Great Wall Lyrics - Bedtime For Democracy - Dead Kennedys

Great Wall of China 

It's so big it's seen from outer space 

Put there to keep starving neighbors 

Locked outside the gates 

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 L.A.'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 let your schools decay on purpose 

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To build a Great Wall around our power 

Another Great Wall around our power 

Warlords in grey suits 

Take a different route to work each day 

Second-hand 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 Gentleman 

Would rather feed guns to puppet dictators 

There's too many people in your world 

And refugees are expensive 

When they trickled down onto our soil 

We hunt them and arrest them 

Classify them insane 

And put them back on the next plane 

To the waiting arms 

Of the same death squads they fled 

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We've built a Great Wall around our power 

Economic Great Wall around our power 

Worldwide Great Wall around our power 

Give us your poor, 

Your tired and your weak 

We'll send 'em right back 

To their certain death