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жанры: punk, rock, reggae, 80s
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Ghetto Defendant
автор:
The Clash
жанры: punk, rock, reggae, 80s
альбомы: Combat Rock, The Essential Clash, Hits Back, The Ultimate Collection, The Clash - London Calling - Combat Rock
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Starved in metropolis Hooked on necropolis Addict of metropolis Do the worm on the accropolis Slamdance the cosmopolis Enlighten the populaceHungry 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 child has a dream But it begins like it endsShot in eternity Methadone kitty Iron serenityGhetto 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) (Grafted in a jiffy) heroin pity Not tear gas nor baton charge That stops you taking the cityThe ghetto prince of gutter poets Was bounced out of the room (Jean Arthur Rimbaud) By the bodyguards of greed For disturbing the tomb (eighteen-seventy-three) His words like flamethrowers (paris commune) Burnt the ghettos in their chests His face was 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 cityGuatemala, Honduras, Poland, the Hundred-Years War TV re-run invasion Death squad Salvador Afghanistan, meditation, old Chinese flu Kick junk, what else can a poor worker do?Ghetto defendant In heroin pity Not tear gas nor baton charge That stops you taking the cityGhetto defendant It is heroin pity
Это интересно:К началу 80-х в родной Великобритании Clash по популярности почти не знали конкурентов, уступая разве что The Jam. Баловни судьбы, они могли гордиться сразу двумя исключительно талантливыми композиторами в составе - Джо Страммером (Joe Strummer) и Миком Джонсом (Mick Jones), каждый из которых обладал уникальным стилем и голосом. Они не ограничивались рамками традиционного панк-рока, втягивая... продолжение
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