A defensive wall is a fortification used to protect a city or settlement from potential aggressors. In ancient to modern times, they were used to enclose settlements. Generally, these are referred to as city walls or town walls, although there were also walls, such as the Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall, and the metaphorical Atlantic Wall, which extended far beyond the borders of a city and were used to enclose regions or mark territorial boundaries. Beyond their defensive utility, many walls also had important symbolic functions — representing the status and independence of the communities they embraced.
Existing ancient walls are almost always masonry structures, although brick and timber-built variants are also known. Depending on the topography of the area surrounding the city or the settlement the wall is intended to protect, elements of the terrain (e.g. rivers or coastlines) may be incorporated in order to make the wall more effective.
Walls may only be crossed by entering the appropriate city gate and are often supplemented with towers. In the Middle Ages, the right of a settlement to build a defensive wall was a privilege, and was usually granted by the so-called "right of crenellation"[citation needed] on a medieval fortification. The practice of building these massive walls, though having its origins in prehistory, was refined during the rise of city-states, and energetic wall-building continued into the medieval period and beyond in certain parts of Europe.
He grew up in a normal home
Real Typical, we'd say
One sister and two brothers
They were comrades for the play
The video was his best friend,
He watched it day and night
But death and war was alright
Wild seed, wild seed from the start
Wild seed, wild seed, injured heart
He'd seen his daddy drinking
And he learned to asked no whys
When Mom was lying on the floor
With tears in her eyes
He went out with his brothers
And they laughed about the hurt
They felt so good and strong
When someone was aching in the dirt
Wild seed, wild seed from the start
Wild seed, wild seed, injured heart
Oh, that's really wild
Really wild insane
Deep into social hell
He always thought that women
Are the servants of men's greed
And really was, astonished
When she called for the police
So he lived in a normal jail
Real typical, we'd say
And yesterday they killed him
When he tried to break away
Wild seed, wild seed from the start
Wild seed, wild seed, injured heart
Really wild
Really wild insane
Kneel down ye sinners, streetwise religion
Greed's been crowned the new king
Hollywood dream teens, yesterday's trash queens
Save the blessings for the final ring, Amen
Do you ride?
Wild side
Do you ride?
Wild side
Carry my crucifix under my death list
Forward my mail to me in hell
Liars and the martyrs lost faith in the Father
Long lost is the wishing well
Do you ride?
Wild side
Do you ride?
Wild side
Fallen angels so fast to kill
Kingdom come on the wild side
Our Father, He's in Heaven
Be Thy name on the wild side
Holy Mary, Mother may I
Pray for us on the wild side
Wild side, wild side
Name dropping no names, glamorize cocaine
Puppets with strings of gold
East L.A. at midnight, papa won't be home tonight
Found dead with his best friend's wife, fuck it
Do you ride?
Wild side
Do you ride?
Wild side
Do you ride?
Wild side
Do you ride?
Wild side, yeah
Can't fight, fatal strikes
We lie on the wild side
No escape, murder rape
Doing time on the wild side
A baby cries, a cop dies
A day's pay on the wild side
Wild side, wild side
Tragic life on the wild side
Wild side, wild side
Out to the west there's a trail that leads somewhere
And a call of the wild that takes some people there
Through Monument Valley to California sun
From New Amsterdam to the way the west was won
Well, years will go by when you won't get nowhere
You're cold and you're tired and you're free and you don't care
You keep pushin' on when your friends keep turning back
And you keep building towns and laying railroad track
And things get crazy and you have to use that gun
And you wonder if this is the way the west is won
But keep thinkin' that way and you won't get nowhere
'Cause you got a right just to get where you're goin' to
Gotta keep runnin', gotta be the best
Gotta walk tall in the wild west
You keep on the move or you try to settle down
And there's strangers from further and further away in town
And you give them some tools and they know what must be done
And you know who's the boss and you know the west was won
And they say
Where I come from, you can't get nowhere
I'm breaking my back for some opportunity
Making my fortune and I'll take it all home
Tell my kids about the wild west
And there's still beauty as the flowers bloom on desert sands
And there's still hope as the sun rises over the Rio Grande
But it's so crowded now and nothing's simple anymore
And they're still knocking at your door
You hear guns in the night and you hope they're not for you
'Cause a dog eats a dog then he eats his master too
In the land of the free and the not so often brave
There's both love or money now choose which you will save
But keep thinkin' that way and you won't get nowhere
'Cause you got a right just to get where you're goin' to
Gotta keep runnin', gotta be the best
Gotta walk tall in the wild west
Keep thinkin' that way and you won't get nowhere
'Cause you got a right just to get where you're goin' to
Gotta keep runnin', gotta be the best
Gotta walk tall in the wild west
Gotta walk tall in the wild west
Well, it's Tuesday night
How I'd like to be inside at this time
Watchin' T.V. is killin' me
It's such a drag, tonight
I feel like Jason
Just found a rusty fleece
And the Cyclops, all laughin' at me
You can't tame wild east
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Now some cynic from the methadone clinic
He keeps on bothering me
He writes all my lyrics backwards on diapers
And hangs 'em from the local trees
Watch out, white boy
Don't argue with a sawn off piece
I'm a crazy son, mama
I love the grease of Wild East
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Now Jezebel don't feel too well, she talks to Jane
'Bout a one way conversation on a subway train
Hey, they took away her wallet and her valise
Love, hate, love, hate, love, hate, love, hate, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Baby
Are you holding the key
Was it you that put a lock on my door
Who sent you
Are you deep as the sea
Well it takes a deep womb
To shelter me
I can hold you, girl
And watch your heart settle down
Feels like home
But I'm lost somehow
God made you beautiful
I made you cry
So listen, babe
The sun's going down
You know what I mean
There ain't much time
'Cause we're the wild seed, girl
And this land's being farmed
You know a farmer takes great pride
In what he leaves behind
God made you beautiful
I found your picture in my glovebox
Took it out and dusted it off
Damn, we had one good love
But then we both messed it up
You didn't want to commit
And I just couldn't fake it
[Chorus:]
It was like drinking old soda
From several years ago
It left a bad taste in my mouth
That wouldn't ever go
Expired, guess I shoulda known
It's hard to find my own way home
It's gonna be hard to re-get over you
But if I want to breathe, I'm gonna have to
Didn't match the said description
Now we're both just an encription
I can't take all of this friction
Of if it was fact or was it fiction
[Chorus:]
It was like drinking old soda
From several years ago
It left a bad taste in my mouth
That wouldn't ever go
Expired, guess I shoulda known
It's hard to find my own way home
Coca-cola or diet pepsi
What you get is what you see
Orange aid or a root beer
I had hoped that you'd be here
But you aren't
I'm so lonely
And I can't
Stand the fizzing
[Chorus:]
It was like drinking old soda
From several years ago
It left a bad taste in my mouth
That wouldn't ever go
Expired, guess I shoulda known
It's hard to find my own way home
[Chorus:]
It was like drinking old soda
From several years ago
It left a bad taste in my mouth
That wouldn't ever go
Expired, guess I shoulda known
There's a light shining on you
And baby, I'm trembling inside
Loved a woman that I barely knew
I must have been out of my mind
Oh I, I'll never hurt you again
Girl I, I know you deserve a better man
Hey I, I was a fool to ever let you down
So why would you stay?
Woman, I beg your forgiveness
And I'll do whatever it takes
And may the Lord be my witness
Honey, I never meant to treat you this way
Sugar, your heart has been broken
But I can still see true love shine in your eyes
When every word has been spoken
Woman, I'll love you for the rest of my life
Oh I, I'll never hurt you again
Girl I, I know you deserve a better man
Hey I, I was a fool to ever let you down
So why would you stay?
Oh baby, don't know why
Why you would stay
Baby, baby, you're my baby
Hey girl, yeah
I, I'll never hurt you again
Girl I, I know you deserve a better man
Girl I, I was a fool to ever let you down
But I want you to stay
Girl I, I'll never hurt you again
Baby, I know you deserve a better man
Girl I, girl I, I was a fool to ever let you down
Baby
Are you holding the key
Was it you that put a lock on my door
Who sent you
Are you deep as the sea
Well it takes a deep womb
To shelter me
I can hold you, girl
And watch your heart settle down
Feels like home
But I'm lost somehow
God made you beautiful
I made you cry
So listen, babe
The sun's going down
You know what I mean
There ain't much time
'Cause we're the wild seed, girl
And this land's being farmed
You know a farmer takes great pride
In what he leaves behind
God made you beautiful
wild west
my spurs can rip your back for pain or pleasure
wild west
I've worn these boots since I was seventeen
wild west
I screw the bank for just one silver dollar
wild west, wild west, wild west
as wild as me
wild west
I saw my grave, I saw my epitaph
wild west
broke the law gee, I had a laugh
wild west
now I'm dead can set my six gun free
wild west wild west wild west
as wild as me
all you cowboys on the prairie
bareback riding won't you take me
on your leather spurs
bareback riding won't you take me
wild west
my spurs will rip your back for pain or pleasure
wild west
I've worn these boots since I was seventeen
wild west
I screw the bank for just one silver dollar
Up until the middle of the 20th century,
many Americans believed in the idea known as the "Manifest Destiny."
It held that all of North America,
from sea to shining sea,
was rightfully the property of the U.S. and was given to us by God.
Native Americans were unscrupulously thrown off their homelands
and slaughtered in the name of Jesus.
Horror stories of entire tribes being led through rivers while
being baptized,
just to be shot and scalped on the other side,
rival those of the Spanish Inquisition.
Today, I see street corner preachers screaming at passers-by,
while the amount of Neo-Nazi Hate crimes are escalating every day.
All of this under a blanket name of "Christianity."
Read Your Bible.
Jesus never beat people or insulted them into believing in him.
He spoke the truth
And set an example by loving every man.
We are called to follow his example.
Remember the Massacres at Sand Creek and meeker.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.
Some cowboys were a ridin', ridin' on the range;
The grass was over grazed there,
and spotted like some mange;
The buffalo were dead there,
the trees they all were through,
and if they saw some Injuns,
why they would kill them too.
West or bust, in God we trust,
"Let's rape, let's kill, let's steal"
We can almost justify, anything we feel;
I'm climbing up that ladder,
more brownie points for me I'll work my way to Jesus
you wait and see.
Said one cowboy to another,
"I think it would be nice,
if we could take these injuns and convert them all to Christ;
See, they are all disgusting, and bringing me great pain,
and if they don't believe me,
we'll put a bullet in their brains!"
I am always shoutin',
when I go outside,
how people should repent now,
or they're going to die.
My motives are all selfish,
I'm a cannon brimmed with powder.
If people don't believe me,