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Great wall of china |
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It's so big it's seen from outer space |
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Put there to keep starving neighbors |
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Locked outside the gates |
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What's changed today? |
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Empires hoard more than they need |
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And peasants threaten our comfort |
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We'll build a great wall around our power |
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Build a great wall around our power |
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Bankrupt l.a.'s streetcar line |
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So people pay more to drive |
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Plant strategic freeways |
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To divide neighborhoods by color lines |
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We'd rather pay for riot squads |
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Than pump your ghetto back to life |
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We let your schools decay on purpose |
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To build a great wall around our power |
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Another great wall around our power |
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Warlords in grey suits |
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Take a different route to work each day |
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Second-hand green berets |
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Form the companies' private armies. |
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We'll take all your gold |
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But won't teach reading or feed your poor |
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The league of gentleman |
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Would rather feed guns to puppet dictators |
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There's too many people in your world |
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And refugees are expensive |
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When they trickled down onto our soil |
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We hunt them and arrest them |
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Classify them insane |
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And put them back on the next plane |
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To the waiting arms |
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Of the same death squads they fled |
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We've built a great wall around our power |
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Economic great wall around our power |
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Worldwide great wall around our power |
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Give us your poor, |
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Your tired and your weak |
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We'll send 'em right back |
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To their certain death |
