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Dead Kennedys The Great Wall Lyrics
Total views: 1 time this week / Rating: 8/10 [13 votes]Album: Bedtime for Democracy / Original Release Date: 1986Genre: RockSong Duration: 1 min 32 sec
DEAD KENNEDYS
- The Great Wall Lyrics / with translationsGreat Wall of China
It's so big it's seen from outer space
Put there to keep starving neighbors
Locked outside the gates
What's changed today?
Empires hoard more than they need
And peasants threaten our comfort
We'll build a Great Wall around our power
Build a Great Wall around our power
Bankrupt L.A.'s streetcar line
So people pay more to drive
Plant strategic freeways
To divide neighborhoods by color lines
We'd rather pay for riot squads
Than pump your ghetto back to life
We let your schools decay on purpose
To build a Great Wall around our power
Another Great Wall around our power
Warlords in grey suits
Take a different route to work each day
Second-hand green berets
Form the companies' private armies.
We'll take all your gold
But won't teach reading or feed your poor
The League of Gentleman
Would rather feed guns to puppet dictators
There's too many people in your world
And refugees are expensive
When they trickled down onto our soil
We hunt them and arrest them
Classify them insane
And put them back on the next plane
To the waiting arms
Of the same death squads they fled
We've built a Great Wall around our power
Economic Great Wall around our power
Worldwide Great Wall around our power
Give us your poor,
Your tired and your weak
We'll send 'em right back
To their certain death
It's so big it's seen from outer space
Put there to keep starving neighbors
Locked outside the gates
What's changed today?
Empires hoard more than they need
And peasants threaten our comfort
We'll build a Great Wall around our power
Build a Great Wall around our power
Bankrupt L.A.'s streetcar line
So people pay more to drive
Plant strategic freeways
To divide neighborhoods by color lines
We'd rather pay for riot squads
Than pump your ghetto back to life
We let your schools decay on purpose
To build a Great Wall around our power
Another Great Wall around our power
Warlords in grey suits
Take a different route to work each day
Form the companies' private armies.
We'll take all your gold
But won't teach reading or feed your poor
The League of Gentleman
Would rather feed guns to puppet dictators
There's too many people in your world
And refugees are expensive
When they trickled down onto our soil
We hunt them and arrest them
Classify them insane
And put them back on the next plane
To the waiting arms
Of the same death squads they fled
We've built a Great Wall around our power
Economic Great Wall around our power
Worldwide Great Wall around our power
Give us your poor,
Your tired and your weak
We'll send 'em right back
To their certain death
Facts about The Great Wall
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The Great Wall is written by Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, Klaus Fluoride, D. H. Peligro.
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It is first released in 1986 as part of Dead Kennedys's album "Bedtime for Democracy" which includes 21 tracks in total. This song is the 5th track on this album.
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The Great Wall falls under the genre Rock.
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The Great Wall song length is 1 minutes and 32 seconds.
Who wrote The Great Wall lyrics?
The Great Wall is written by Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, Klaus Fluoride, D. H. Peligro.
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When was The Great Wall released?
It is first released in 1986 as part of Dead Kennedys's album "Bedtime for Democracy" which includes 21 tracks in total. This song is the 5th track on this album.
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Which genre is The Great Wall?
The Great Wall falls under the genre Rock.
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How long is the song The Great Wall?
The Great Wall song length is 1 minutes and 32 seconds.
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Songwriter(s): Jello Biafra, East Bay Ray, Klaus Fluoride, D. H. PeligroRecord Label(s): 1986 Decay Music
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