Cool, I'd say Nitcomb is my favourite Meskies lyric. Maybe it's because Joe rarely did sentimental songs, and this one's great.mcnugget wrote:ahahaha i love you brother.tepista wrote:He who has consensual sex with attractive nuns, will later join the church
all of 'nitcomb' holds close to me for some reason. mainly these parts...
I'm talking to all the chewing gum
That's stuck everywhere on the street
Love buys a six-pack and gives it to the bums ( i have this written on my backpack and everybody asks about it, and say they love it)
Favourite Strummer lyric?
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I love the "gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me". Never really thought about it until I was denitting the kids. A line Joe obviously wrote as a fatherthreecoffins wrote:Cool, I'd say Nitcomb is my favourite Meskies lyric. Maybe it's because Joe rarely did sentimental songs, and this one's great.mcnugget wrote:ahahaha i love you brother.tepista wrote:He who has consensual sex with attractive nuns, will later join the church
all of 'nitcomb' holds close to me for some reason. mainly these parts...
I'm talking to all the chewing gum
That's stuck everywhere on the street
Love buys a six-pack and gives it to the bums ( i have this written on my backpack and everybody asks about it, and say they love it)
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'tis a good lyric for sure.101Walterton wrote:I love the "gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me". Never really thought about it until I was denitting the kids. A line Joe obviously wrote as a fatherthreecoffins wrote:Cool, I'd say Nitcomb is my favourite Meskies lyric. Maybe it's because Joe rarely did sentimental songs, and this one's great.mcnugget wrote:ahahaha i love you brother.tepista wrote:He who has consensual sex with attractive nuns, will later join the church
all of 'nitcomb' holds close to me for some reason. mainly these parts...
I'm talking to all the chewing gum
That's stuck everywhere on the street
Love buys a six-pack and gives it to the bums ( i have this written on my backpack and everybody asks about it, and say they love it)
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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I guess my late 90s bout with a certain STD makes me look at that song in a different, yet parallel manner.101Walterton wrote:I love the "gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me". Never really thought about it until I was denitting the kids. A line Joe obviously wrote as a fatherthreecoffins wrote:Cool, I'd say Nitcomb is my favourite Meskies lyric. Maybe it's because Joe rarely did sentimental songs, and this one's great.mcnugget wrote:ahahaha i love you brother.tepista wrote:He who has consensual sex with attractive nuns, will later join the church
all of 'nitcomb' holds close to me for some reason. mainly these parts...
I'm talking to all the chewing gum
That's stuck everywhere on the street
Love buys a six-pack and gives it to the bums ( i have this written on my backpack and everybody asks about it, and say they love it)
GET THAT IMAGE OUT OF YOUR HEAD.
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Don't wanna start any rumours but you know her don't you Wolter.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
Re: Favourite Strummer lyric?
If death comes so cheap, then the same goes for life.
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All great ones posted in this thread so far...
I've always liked "They said we'd be artistically free when signed that little paper, They meant let's make a lotsa money, worry about it later."
I've always liked "They said we'd be artistically free when signed that little paper, They meant let's make a lotsa money, worry about it later."
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That's another Mick one, surely? There are so many great Joe lines, but some of my favourites are
"The kids in halls and the pipes in the walls
Make me noises for company"
"As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust
Water froze
In the generation
Clear as winter ice
This is your paradise"
"Working for a rise, better my station
Take my baby to sophistication
She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice
Better work hard - I seen the price"
"The kids in halls and the pipes in the walls
Make me noises for company"
"As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust
Water froze
In the generation
Clear as winter ice
This is your paradise"
"Working for a rise, better my station
Take my baby to sophistication
She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice
Better work hard - I seen the price"
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now they got the sun, an' they got the palm trees
they got the weed, an' they got the taxis
whoa, the harder they come, n' the home of ol' bluebeat
yes i'd stay an' be a tourist but i can't take the gunplay
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So get back to work an' sweat some more
The sun will sink an' we'll get out the door
It's no good for man to work in cages
Hits the town, he drinks his wages
You're frettin', you're sweatin'
But did you notice you ain't gettin'?
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To the opium den and the barroom gin
In the Belmont chair playing violins
The gambler's face cracks into a grin
As he lays down the king of spades
But the dealer just stares
There's something wrong here, he thinks
The gambler is seized and forced to his knees
And shot dead
He only wanted more time
Away from the darkest door
But his luck it gave in
As the dawn light crept in
And he lay on the floor
From the Hundred Year War to the Crimea
With a lance and a musket and a Roman spear
To all of the men who have stood with no fear
In the service of the King
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johnny too bad meets johnny be good
in the charing cross road
that's the only thing that happened today
says the west end jungle code
and all the germans and all the french
jam themselves down the tube
and re-enact the second world war
while the rude boys get rude!
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the old man spoke up in a bar
said i never been in prison
a lifetime serving one machine
is ten times worse than prison
they got the weed, an' they got the taxis
whoa, the harder they come, n' the home of ol' bluebeat
yes i'd stay an' be a tourist but i can't take the gunplay
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So get back to work an' sweat some more
The sun will sink an' we'll get out the door
It's no good for man to work in cages
Hits the town, he drinks his wages
You're frettin', you're sweatin'
But did you notice you ain't gettin'?
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To the opium den and the barroom gin
In the Belmont chair playing violins
The gambler's face cracks into a grin
As he lays down the king of spades
But the dealer just stares
There's something wrong here, he thinks
The gambler is seized and forced to his knees
And shot dead
He only wanted more time
Away from the darkest door
But his luck it gave in
As the dawn light crept in
And he lay on the floor
From the Hundred Year War to the Crimea
With a lance and a musket and a Roman spear
To all of the men who have stood with no fear
In the service of the King
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johnny too bad meets johnny be good
in the charing cross road
that's the only thing that happened today
says the west end jungle code
and all the germans and all the french
jam themselves down the tube
and re-enact the second world war
while the rude boys get rude!
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the old man spoke up in a bar
said i never been in prison
a lifetime serving one machine
is ten times worse than prison
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How many local dollars for the local anesthetic?TommyGunn wrote:now they got the sun, an' they got the palm trees
they got the weed, an' they got the taxis
whoa, the harder they come, n' the home of ol' bluebeat
yes i'd stay an' be a tourist but i can't take the gunplay
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
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fantasticJennyB wrote:If death comes so cheap, then the same goes for life.
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THE PRISONER LIVES IN CAMDEN TOWN
SELLING REVOLUTION
THE PRISONER LOADS HIS TRACKING ARM UP
WITH SELF-DISILLUSION
YOUR MOTHER DOES THE WASHING UP
YOUR OLD MAN DIGS THE GARDEN
YOU'RE ONLY FREE TO DODGE THE COPS
AN' BUNK THE TRAIN TO STARDOM
SELLING REVOLUTION
THE PRISONER LOADS HIS TRACKING ARM UP
WITH SELF-DISILLUSION
YOUR MOTHER DOES THE WASHING UP
YOUR OLD MAN DIGS THE GARDEN
YOU'RE ONLY FREE TO DODGE THE COPS
AN' BUNK THE TRAIN TO STARDOM
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
Re: Favourite Strummer lyric?
I've always liked
You don't need no silicone to calculate poverty
You don't need no silicone to calculate poverty
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...london Bridge was sold somehow / but it was too old, any how...
If Music Could Talk ( right channel)
the old dears doing the washing up / the old mans in the garden
you're only free to dodge the cops or bunk the train to stardom
The Prisoner
Who hid the radio under the stairs/ and who got caught unawares?
English Civil War
The whole of 'something About England' (couplets out of context dont work)
If Music Could Talk ( right channel)
the old dears doing the washing up / the old mans in the garden
you're only free to dodge the cops or bunk the train to stardom
The Prisoner
Who hid the radio under the stairs/ and who got caught unawares?
English Civil War
The whole of 'something About England' (couplets out of context dont work)
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The sink looked like Antietam.Marky Dread wrote:Don't wanna start any rumours but you know her don't you Wolter.
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