Dead Kennedys The Great Wall song lyrics

Great Wall of China, it's so big it's seen from outer space

Put there to keep starving neighbors locked outside the gates

So 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 the ghetto back to life

We'll let your schools decay on purpose

To build a great wall around our power

Another great wall around our power

Warlords in gray suits take a different route to work each day

Secondhand 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 gentlemen would rather feed guns to puppet dictators

There's too many people in your world and refugees are expensive

When they trickle down into 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 build a great wall around our power

Worldwide great wall around our power

Economic great wall around our power

Give us your poor, your tired, your weak

We'll send 'em right back to their certain death