Ghetto Defendant

C Am C Am Dm Em C Am C Dm Em C Am Starved in metropolis C Dm Em C Am Hooked on necropolis C Dm Em C Am Addict of metropolis C Am C Am Do the worm on acropolis Dm Em C C/B Am Slam dance cosmopolis Am C Am Dm Em C C/B Am Enlighten the populace C Am C Am Dm Em C C/B Am 2x C Am C Am Hungry darkness of living Dm Em Who will thirst in the pit? Am (Hooked in metropolis) C Am She spent a lifetime deciding Dm Em C How to run from it Am (Addicts of metropolis) C Am C Am Once fate had a witness Dm Em C And the years seemed like friends Am (Girlfriends) C Now her child has a dream Dm Em C Am But it begins like it ends Am C Am Dm (Shot in eternity) Em Am C Am C Am Dm Em (Methadone kitty) C Am (Iron serenity) C Am Ghetto defendant Dm Em C Am It is heroin pity C Am Not tear gas nor baton charge Dm Em C That stops you taking the city Am C (Strung out committee) C Am C Am Walled out of the city Dm Em Am Clubbed down from uptown C Am C Am Sprayed pest from the nest Dm Em C Run out to barrio town Am (The guards are itchy) C Forced to watch at the feast Dm Em Am Then sweep up the night C Am C Flipped pieces of coin Am Dm (Broken bottles) Em Am Exchanged for birthright Am (Grafted in a jiffy) C Am Ghetto defendant Dm Em C It is heroin pity Am (Strung out committee) C Am Not tear gas nor baton charge Dm Em Will stop you taking the city Am (Not sitting pretty) Dm (Grafted in a jiffy) Am Heroin pity C Am Not tear gas nor baton charge Dm Em Am Will stop you taking the city N.C. The Ghetto Prince of gutter poets N.C. Was bounced out of the room Am C (Jean Arthur Rimbaud) Am C Am By the bodyguards of greed Dm Am For disturbing the tomb C (1873) C Am His words like flamethrowers Am (Paris commune) Dm Em C Am Burnt the ghettos in their chests C Am C Am His face painted whiter Dm Em And he was laid to rest Am (Died in Marseilles) C Am Ghetto defendant Dm (Buried in Charleville) Em Am It is heroin pity C Am Not tear gas nor baton charge D Em C Stops you taking the city Am (Shut up in eternity) Dm Em C Am It is heroin pity C Am Not tear gas nor baton charge Dm Em C Am That stops you taking the city C Am Dm Em C Am C Am Dm Em C Am C Am Dm Em C Am C Am Dm Em C Am Ghetto defendant Dm Em In heroin pity C Am Not tear gas nor baton charge Dm Em C Am Will stop you taking that city C Am Ghetto defendant Dm Em C Am It is heroin pity C Am Not tear gas nor baton charge