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Empire Lyrics

Artist: Queensryche
Album: Empire

Last night the word came down, ten dead in Chinatown.
Innocent, their 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 right 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.

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. hold his chain 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?

Eastside meets Westside downtown.
No time, no line, the walls fall down.

Can't you feel it coming? EMPIRE!
Can't you hear it coming EMPIRE!
Can't someone here stop it...??!!

Comments/Interpretations
by kay on 10/13/2008 10:36am Love this song!!!
by Jeremy on 11/21/2008 11:54pm I've always liked this song, even when I was too young to understand the meaning. Only recently has it inspired me to OPEN MY EYES to truth and close them to our nation's zeitgeist. What's ZEITGEIST...?! Look it up...seriously
by gecko on 11/22/2008 9:00am narly dude
by bk extra value meal on 12/5/2008 12:37pm this song is crazy
by John Fazio (Founder of Rioteers) on 4/25/2009 4:13pm I love this song.One of my favorite of theirs.Rock On!
by Casey on 7/3/2009 1:47pm It takes twice as much to incarcerate a youth as it is to put them through mandatory drug rehab. Justice and compassionate must meet. A felony is hard to shake.
by Michael on 10/25/2009 1:46am This band so rocks

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