Ghetto Defendant

GHETTO DEFENDANT As recorded by The Clash (From the 1982 Album COMBAT ROCK) [Intro]    [Verse 1] Starved in metropolis       Hooked on necropolis       Addict of metropolis       Do the worm on acropolis Slam  dance cosmopolis        Enlighten the populace                   [Interlude]    / x2 [Verse 2] 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) Now her child has a dream But it begins like it ends (Shot in eternity)      (Methadone kitty)               (Iron serenity) [Chorus] Ghetto defendant It is heroin pity Not tear gas nor baton charge That stops you taking the city (Strung out committee) [Verse 3] 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) [Chorus] Ghetto defendant It is heroin pity (Strung out committee) Not tear gas nor baton charge Will stop you taking the city (Not sitting pretty) (Grafted in a jiffy) Heroin pity Not tear gas nor baton charge Will stop you taking the city [Verse 4] N.C. The Ghetto Prince of gutter poets N.C. 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 painted whiter And he was laid to rest (Died in Marseilles) [Chorus] Ghetto defendant (Buried in Charleville) It is heroin pity Not tear gas nor baton charge Stops you taking the city (Shut up in eternity) It is heroin pity Not tear gas nor baton charge That stops you taking the city [Interlude]              [Outro] Ghetto defendant In heroin pity Not tear gas nor baton charge Will stop you taking that city Ghetto defendant It is heroin pity Not tear gas nor baton charge