Ghetto Defendant

Starved in metropolis
Hooked on necropolis
Addict of metropolis
Do the worm on the acropolis
Slam dance cosmopolis
Enlighten the populace

Hungry darkness of living
Who will thirst in the pit? (Hooked on necropolis)
She spent a lifetime deciding
How to run from it (addict of metropolis)
Once fate had a witness and the years seemed like friends (girlfriends)
Now her child has a dream
But it begins like its end
Shot into eternity
Methadone Kitty
Iron Serenity

Ghetto defendant
It is heroin pity
Not tear gas nor baton charge
To stop 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)

Ghetto defendant it is heroin pity (strung out committee)
Not tear gas nor baton charge
To stop you taking the city (not sitting pretty)
(Grafted in a jiffy) Heroin pity
Not tear gas nor baton charge
To stop you taking the city

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 painted whiter
Then he was laid to rest (died in Marseille)

Ghetto defendant (buried in Charleville)
It is heroin pity
Not tear gas nor baton charge
To stop you taking the city (shut up in eternity)
It is heroin pity
Not tear gas nor baton charge
To stop you taking the city

Guatemala, Honduras, Poland
The hundred years war
TV re-run invasion
Death squad Salvador
Afghanistan
Meditation
Old Chinese flu
Kick junk, what else can a poor worker do?

Ghetto defendant
It is heroin pity
Not tear gas nor baton charge
To stop you taking the city

Ghetto defendant
It is heroin pity
Not tear gas nor baton charge
To stop you taking the city