Ghetto Songtext
von The Wall

The wire is all in my head
Open my eyes while dream passing stead
Of steel and showers, machine gun towers
There is only dead yellow flowers

Meanwhile, underneath the tropical sun
Gold toothed merchants, I wonder who won
Palm trees sway under a building of stone
Sand over flesh of permanent loan

Ghetto (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, barbed wire)
Ghetto (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, barbed wire)
Ghetto (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, barbed wire)

Just a documentary I once saw
Of another world in another war
I changed over halfway through
Changed my eyes to a healthier view


Meanwhile, underneath the tropical sun
Gold toothed merchants, I wonder who won
Palm trees sway under a building of stone
Sand over flesh of permanent loan

Ghetto (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, barbed wire)
Ghetto (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, barbed wire)
Ghetto (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, barbed wire)

And now I′m dead, who'll pray for me?
Nobody′s gonna save me
And now I'm dead, who'll pray for me?
And nobody′s gonna save me

Maybe it never happened at all
Just a TV plot to make us crawl
Is there real life on my screen?
Or the pictures lied, do you know what I mean?

While underneath the tropical sun
Gold toothed merchants, I wonder who won
Palm trees sway under a building of stone
Sand over flesh of permanent loan

Ghetto (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, barbed wire)
Ghetto (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, barbed wire)
Ghetto (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto, barbed wire)