The Great Wall

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Dead Kennedys are an American hardcore punk band formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s. They gained a large underground fanbase in the international punk rock community, and were one of the first American hardcore bands to make a significant impact in the United Kingdom. more »

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1986

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Great 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

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