Great Wall of China
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It's so big it's seen from outer space
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Put there to keep starving neighbors
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Locked outside the gates
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What's changed today?
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Empires hoard more than they need
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And peasants threaten our comfort
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We'll build a Great Wall around our power
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Build a Great Wall around our power
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Bankrupt L.A.'s streetcar line
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So people pay more to drive
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Plant strategic freeways
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To divide neighborhoods by color lines
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We'd rather pay for riot squads
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Than pump your ghetto back to life
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We let your schools decay on purpose
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To build a Great Wall around our power
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Another Great Wall around our power
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Warlords in grey suits
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Take a different route to work each day
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Second-hand green berets
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Form the companies' private armies.
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We'll take all your gold
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But won't teach reading or feed your poor
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The League of Gentleman
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Would rather feed guns to puppet dictators
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There's too many people in your world
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And refugees are expensive
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When they trickled down onto our soil
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We hunt them and arrest them
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Classify them insane
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And put them back on the next plane
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To the waiting arms
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Of the same death squads they fled
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We've built a Great Wall around our power
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Economic Great Wall around our power
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Worldwide Great Wall around our power
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Give us your poor,
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Your tired and your weak
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We'll send 'em right back
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To their certain death
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The Great Wall
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