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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 squds
Than pump your ghetto back to life
We'll 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 our 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 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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Cover art for The Great Wall lyrics by Dead Kennedys

hmm this song can be related in the present day as the USA creating grat walls around their power so inmigrants get fucked up and abusen on the mexican desert and stuff like that