Ghetto Defendant (Extended Unedited Version)

Do the worm on Acropolis

Slamdance the Cosmopolis

Enlighteen 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

Girlfriend

Her babies can dream

But dreams begin like the end

Shot into eternity

Methadone kitty

Iron serenity

Ghetto Defendant

It is h****n 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

Graphed in a jiffy

Strung out committee

Sitting pretty

Graphed in a jiffy

No pity pretty

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 flamthrowers

Paris Commune

Burnt the ghettos in their chests

His face painted whiter

And he was laid to rest

Died in Marseille

Buried in Charleville

Shut Up

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