Karaoké Empire Queensrÿche

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

I 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

Yeah he's got a long way to go

Now he's out on the streets all day selling Crack to the people who pay

Got an AK-fourty-seven for his best friend business the American way

Eastside meets

Westside downtown

No time

The walls fall down

Can't you feel it coming

Can't you hear it calling

Black man trapped again

Holds his chain in his hand

Brother killing brother for the profit of another

Game point nobody wins

Declines 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

The walls fall down

Can't you feel it coming

Can't you hear it calling

Can't someone here stop it

In fiscal year of nineteen eighty-six to eighty seven

Local, state and federal governments spent a combined total of sixteen point six billion dollars

On law enforcement

Federal law enforcement expenditures ranked last in absolute dollars

And accounted for only six percent of all federal spending

By way of comparison the federal government spent twenty-four million more on space exploration

And forty-three times more on national defense and international relations than the law enforcement

Can't you feel it coming

Can't you hear it calling

Can't you feel it coming

Can't you hear it calling

Can't you feel it coming

Can't you hear it calling

Can't you feel it coming

Can't someone here stop it