Ghetto Defendant Lyrics

The song Ghetto Defendant is performed by The Clash in the album named Clash on Broadway in the year 2004 .



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



The Clash - Clash on Broadway

Jun 2004

  1. Janie Jones (Demo)
  2. Career Opportunities (Demo)
  3. White Riot
  4. 1977
  5. I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.
  6. Hate & War
  7. What's My Name
  8. Deny
  9. London's Burning
  10. Protex Blue
  11. Police & Thieves
  12. 48 Hours
  13. Cheat
  14. Garageland
  15. Capital Radio One
  16. Complete Control
  17. Clash City Rockers
  18. City Of The Dead
  19. Jail Guitar Doors
  20. The Prisoner
  21. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
  22. Pressure Drop
  23. 1-2 Crush On You
  24. English Civil War
  25. I Fought The Law (Live)
  26. Safe European Home
  27. Tommy Gun
  28. Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad
  29. Stay Free
  30. One Emotion
  31. Groovy Times
  32. Gates Of The West
  33. Armagideon Time
  34. London Calling
  35. Brand New Cadillac
  36. Rudie Can't Fail
  37. The Guns Of Brixton
  38. Spanish Bombs
  39. Lost In The Supermarket
  40. The Right Profile
  41. The Card Cheat
  42. Death Or Glory
  43. Clampdown
  44. Train In Vain
  45. Bankrobber
  46. Police On My Back
  47. The Magnificent Seven
  48. The Leader
  49. The Call Up
  50. Somebody Got Murdered
  51. Washington Bullets
  52. Broadway
  53. Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice) (Live)
  54. Every Little Bit Hurts
  55. Stop The World
  56. Midnight To Stevens
  57. This Is Radio Clash
  58. Cool Confusion
  59. Red Angel Dragnet
  60. Ghetto Defendant
  61. Rock The Casbah
  62. Should I Stay Or Should I Go
  63. Straight To Hell
  64. The Street Parade

Ghetto Defendant