We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

We Built This City

from Not Alone by Ranchers for Peace

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

lyrics

WE BUILT THIS CITY
(Chas. Duncan)


We built this city
Out of sticks and mud
And paid for it completely
With our sweat and blood

WBTC, on a high place in the swamp
And now it shines so pretty
From the penthouse to the dump

WBTC amid a wilderness
And were taught not to forget we’d be
the ones to build her best

WBTC on mounds of human bones
and with your tears of pity
we could wash her stepping stones

WBTC for the High-and-Mighty’s use
And raised it to civility
With the hangman’s noose

Where a child’s life counts for nothin’
And the Dollar rules
And the House of Justice
Is in a den of fools
And the light of Freedom
Shines from the whorehouse door
And the Police, when you need ’em,
are at the ten-cent store
And the last train to Splitsville
left the station long ago
but the patrons at the Ritz will
ride in limos when they go

WBTC that the One Percent controls
WBTC and we paved it with souls
WBTC, all Creation’s crown
WBTC -- and we can tear it down

credits

from Not Alone, released June 10, 2013

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Ranchers for Peace California

Doing what we can to make giving a damn cool again.

contact / help

Contact Ranchers for Peace

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Ranchers for Peace, you may also like: