The Great Wall

Great Wall of China
It's so big, it's seen from outer space
Put there to keep starving neighbors
Behind the timeless gatesSo what's changed today?
Empires hoard more than they need
And peasants threaten our comfortWe'll build a great wall around our power
Build a great wall around our powerBankrupt L.A.'s streetcar line
So people pay more to drive
Plant strategic freeways
Divide neighborhoods by color linesWe'd rather pay for riot squads
Than pump the ghetto back to life
We let your schools decay on purposeTo build a great wall around the power
Build a great wall around the powerWarlords in gray suits
Take a different route to work each day
Second-hand, green berets
Form the companies' private armiesWe'll take all your gold
But won't teach reading or feed your poor
The League of Gentleman
Would rather feed guns to puppet dictatorsThere's too many people in your world
And refugees are expensive
When they trickled down onto our soil
We hunt them and arrest themClassify them insane
Put them back on the next plane
To the waiting arms
Of the same death squads they fled, yeahBuilt a great wall around the power
Worldwide great wall around the power
Economic great wall around the powerGive us your poor
Your tired and your weak
We'll send 'em right back
To their certain death