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Artist/Band: The Clash
Lyrics for Song: Ghetto Defendant
Lyrics for Album: Combat Rock [1982]



Starved in metropolis

Hooked in nicrapolis

Addict of metropolis

Do the worm on the Accropolis

Slamdance the cosmopolis

Enlighten the populace



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 girl has a dream, but it begins like the end

(Shot into eternity)

(Methadone kitty)

(Iron serenity)



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

(Grafted in a jiffy)



Ghetto defendant it is heroin pity

(Strung out committee)

Not tear gas nor baton charge

That stops you taking the city

(Not sitting pretty)

(Left it in a jiffy)

Not tear gas nor baton charge

That stops 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, and he was laid to rest

(Died in Marseille)



Ghetto defendant it is heroin pity

(Buried in Charleville)

Not tear gas nor baton charge

That stops you taking the city

(Shut up in etenity)



It is heroin pity

Not tear gas nor baton charge

That stops you taking the city



Ghetto defendant it is heroin pity

Not tear gas nor baton charge

That stops you taking the city



Ghetto defendant it is heroin pity

Not tear gas nor baton charge

That stops you taking the city


Album Lyrics: Combat Rock [1982]


The Clash
"Combat Rock [1982]"


1. Car Jamming
2. Red Angel Dragnet
3. Overpowered By Funk
4. Atom Tan
5. Sean Flynn
6. Ghetto Defendant
7. Innoculated City
8. Death is a Star