Queensryche – Empire lyrics

Queensryche – Empire lyrics

Last night the word came down
Ten dead in chinatown
Innocent, they're only crime was
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time
Too bad, people say, what's wrong with the kids today?
Tell you uright now they've got nothing to lose
They're building empire!

Johnny used to work after school
At the cinema show
Gotta hustle if he wants an education, he's got a long way to go
Now he's out on the street all day
Selling crack to the people who pay
Got an ak-47 for his best friend, business the american way

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Eastside meets westside downtown
No time the walls fall down
Can't you feel it coming? Empire!
Can't you hear it calling?

Black man trapped again, holds his chains in his hand
Brother killing brother for the profit of another
Game point, nobody wins
Decline, right on time
What happened to the dream sublime?
Tear it all down, we'll put it up again
Another empire?

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In fiscal year 1986 to 87
Local, state, and federal governments
Spent a combined total of 16. 6 billion dollars
On law enforcement
Federal law enforcement expenditures
Ranked last in absolute dollars
And accounted for only 6% of all federal spending
By way of comparison
The federal government spent 25 millon more
On space exploration and 43 times more on national defense
And national relations then on law enforcement)

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Can't someone here stop it... ?

Lyrics taken from /lyrics/q/queensryche/empire.html

Songwriters: Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton

Empire lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Corrected by motleyfuckingcrue

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Unregistered 2012-02-12 01:07:28

A plea for the federal government to legalize all drugs as the only way to win the war on drugs is to control them and education. Let those that choose to use and abuse them the oportunity to do so. With that right comes the responsibility of not being able to blame the drugs for their actions. If an individual commits a crime while under the influence or not, the punishment should be the same whether or not they are abusers. Drugs don't make a person commit a crime, it is of their own free will. Quit being a society that has to find a reson for people's actions. The kennedy's figured this one out. And yes, tobacco and alcohol are drugs and are the ones most prevalently abused.

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Unregistered 2015-05-02 06:53:06

To all known gang bangers if you use a gun in a crime (any crime) you should be sentenced to life! To me gang bangers are the lowest scum of the Earth next to pedophiles and like assholes who do not deserve to live! Why should said dweeb gangbanger get to sit in prison on my tax dollars? To me that is just totally un-freakin-acceptable! Or they could do like they do in Russia, once found guilty of capital crimes they're shot. Maybe use their own gun. I'd pay to see that!

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Unregistered 2020-09-12 17:07:27

This is saying blacks have chosen to chain them selves to drugs for the lust of money, minus the hard work of education & determination to have a legitimate job & make a good living for their family, putting their self/family in danger not caring to take their fellow brothers life, all for the almighty dollar, building what they call their empire,Then turn on their brother & get them busted or murdered, then take their customers & it just keeps on going, On the chains, they didn’t know they had the keys to loose their selves & their families, Their children see this & the whole cycle begins again, If you don’t know history it continues to repeat it self. They allow police to use them to destroy their brothers empire & to gain the profit from each other destruction, that’s what we call narcissistic narcs.

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