Favourite Strummer lyric?
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Favourite Strummer lyric?
What is your all-time favourite Strummer lyric or line? Whether it's for sentimental or personal reasons or you just think it's witty or kick-ass, what's your favourite line from Joe?
Hard to pick just one from even this song, but I think "you grow up and you calm down" from Clampdown is great.
Hard to pick just one from even this song, but I think "you grow up and you calm down" from Clampdown is great.
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Re: Favourite Strummer lyric?
The entirety of Shaktar Donetsk. Joe's best lyric ever, far as I'm concerned. I bolded the clincher line, but the whole song's incredible.Noise Inspector wrote:What is your all-time favourite Strummer lyric or line? Whether it's for sentimental or personal reasons or you just think it's witty or kick-ass, what's your favourite line from Joe?
Hard to pick just one from even this song, but I think "you grow up and you calm down" from Clampdown is great.
Gates Of The West is also a contender, except I'm pretty sure that's 100% a Mick lyric.Possible chance, storm, possible chance, gale
Welcome to Britain in the third Millenium
This is the diary of a Macedonian, Macedonian
He went to Britain in the back of a lorry
"Don't worry, don't worry, don't hurry."
Said the man with the plan
He said, "If you really wanna go - you'll get there in the end."
If you really wanna go - alive or dead my friend
Well, you can levitate you know - long as the money's good you're in
Or if you really wanna go - you'll get there in the end
He had the wooly scarf of Shaktar Donetsk
Nay, the banner of freedom wrung around his neck
Inherited from his father
One of the Ukraine exiles of Yugoslavia
He said, "You'll get there in the end."
If you really wanna go - alive or dead my friend
Well, you can levitate you know - long as the money's good you're in
Or if you really wanna go - you'll get there in the end
Yo-oh, he got a little postcard
Yo-oh, everybody got a dream
Yo-oh, he always got it with him
Yo-oh, it's of a nineteen twenty five
Red telephone box with Wembley in the background
Them twin tower vandal-aye
Will he find a two bar heater
Waiting for him in two rooms
Above the cut rate telephone anywhere place
He got off the train in Shadwell, disappeared without trace
He said, "You'll get there in the end."
If you really wanna go - alive or dead my friend
Well, you can levitate you know
long as the money's good you're in
Or if you really wanna go - you'll get there in the end
Oiling the grinding city underside
Treating each flake of rust all over Humberside
You know a blocked generator could cut power to the city system
Well - you'll get there in the end
Alive or dead my friend
You'll get there in the end
Alive or dead my friend
If you really wanna go - you'll get there in the end
If you really wanna go - alive or dead my friend
If you really wanna go - you'll get there in the end
If you really wanna go - alive or dead my friend
If you really wanna go - you'll get there in the end
If you really wanna go - alive or dead my friend
If you really wanna go - long as the money's good you're in
If you really wanna go - you'll get there in the end
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If Adolf Hitler flew in today
They'd send a limousine anyway
They'd send a limousine anyway
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You'd think that God wouldn't be so hard
When you see all the little children running in the backyard
When you see all the little children running in the backyard
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"Monday's coming like a jail on wheels"
"Kool Moe Dee was in the Treacherous Three
There's old school, new school and Brownie McGee"
"Kool Moe Dee was in the Treacherous Three
There's old school, new school and Brownie McGee"
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Phoney Beatle mania has bitten the dust.
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 love that image.drowninghere wrote:"Monday's coming like a jail on wheels"
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"Turning rebellion into money," but only because it gets cited here whenever people want to get uppity.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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And it's brawn against brain
And it's knife against chain
But it's all young blood
Flowing down the drain
And it's knife against chain
But it's all young blood
Flowing down the drain
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead...
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He who has consensual sex with attractive nuns, will later join the church
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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tepista wrote:He who has consensual sex with attractive nuns, will later join the church
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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Spend your life in quarantine
But sooner or later, you'll bump into Jean
If anybody knows the mangled lyric that follows it, please post.
But sooner or later, you'll bump into Jean
If anybody knows the mangled lyric that follows it, please post.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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"A system built by the sweat of the many
Creates assassins to kill off the few"
Creates assassins to kill off the few"
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
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WINNER!eumaas wrote:"A system built by the sweat of the many
Creates assassins to kill off the few"
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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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)