Lirik dan Chord Lagu Ghetto Defendant - The Clash

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