Ghetto Defendant Lyrics - Combat Rock - The Clash

Do the worm on Acropolis 

Slamdance the Cosmopolis 

Enlighten the populace 

Hungry darkness of living 

Who will thirst in the pit 

ed 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 

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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 

Graphed in a jiffy 

Strung out committee 

Sitting pretty 

Graphed in a jiffy 

No pity, pretty 

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The ghetto Prince of gutter poets 

Was bounced out of the room 

Jean Arthur Rimbaud 

By the bodyguards of greed 

For disturbing the tomb 

His words like flamthrowers 

Paris Commune 

Burnt the ghettos in their chests 

His face 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