JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Grup band asal Inggris, The Clash, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Ghetto Defendant”.
Lagu bergenre punk rock tersebut dirilis pada 1982 melalui label Epic Records.
“Ghetto Defendant” muncul dalam album studio kelima mereka yang bertajuk Combat Rock.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Know Your Rights - The Clash
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Ghetto Defendant” dari The Clash.
[Intro]
C Am C Am Dm Em C Am
[Verse 1]
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
[Interlude]
C Am C Am Dm Em C C/B Am x2
[Verse 2]
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)
[Chorus]
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)
[Verse 3]
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)
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 4]
The Ghetto Prince of gutter poets
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)
[Chorus]
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
[Interlude]
C Am Dm Em
C Am C Am Dm Em
C Am C Am Dm Em
C Am C Am Dm Em
[Outro]
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
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