The Clash Ghetto Defendant Lyrics:
Starved in metropolis
hooked on nicropolis
addict of metropolis
do the worm on acropolis
slamdance cosmopolis
enlighten the populace

Hungry darkness of living
who will thirst in the pit?
hooked in nicropolis
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 the doll has a dream
but it begins like the end
shot in 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
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strung out committee
not tear gas nor baton charge
will stop you taking the city

Not sitting pretty
grafted in a jiffy
it is heroin pity
not tear gas nor baton charge
will 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
stops you taking the city

Shut up in an eternity
it is heroin pity
not tear gas nor baton charge
that stops you taking the city

Guatemala honduras poland the hundred years war
tv rerun in vision deathsquad salvadore
afghanistan meditation old chinese nude
get junk, what else can the poor worker do?

Muttering throughout
ghetto defendant
it is heroin pity
not tear gas nor baton charge
stops you taking the city
[Repeat]

Don't hear any of this in the song...
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
Lyrics: Ghetto Defendant, The Clash [end]