This was going to be my post. I think that this line is too true in our societyJennyB wrote:If death comes so cheap, then the same goes for life.
Favourite Strummer lyric?
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And she'll give you those Rabies from Venus
We'll all have that love disease between us
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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“Black shadow of the Vincent
Falls on a Triumph line
I got my motorcycle jacket
But I'm walking all the time
South Atlantic wind blows
Ice from a dying creed
I see no glory
When will we be free?”
Falls on a Triumph line
I got my motorcycle jacket
But I'm walking all the time
South Atlantic wind blows
Ice from a dying creed
I see no glory
When will we be free?”
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“First they curse, then they press me 'til I hurt!”
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14 years I waited for answer, better late than never!Marky Dread wrote: ↑26 Dec 2022, 1:35pmAnd she'll give you those Rabies from Venus
We'll all have that love disease between us
Nah, someone actually answered this already in a different thread many years ago, but cheers Marky.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Re: Favourite Strummer lyric?
"Without People you are nothing" Joe Strummer
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I wish I was a helmsman
On a clipper bound for the Spanish main
Breathing fancy breezes
Gold Jamaican sugar cane
It really couple be any random stanza from any of the three Walker tracks he sings on. I really love what he was going for on those tunes. So wistful and evocative.
On a clipper bound for the Spanish main
Breathing fancy breezes
Gold Jamaican sugar cane
It really couple be any random stanza from any of the three Walker tracks he sings on. I really love what he was going for on those tunes. So wistful and evocative.
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Generated some interest in an old thread.Heston wrote: ↑27 Dec 2022, 5:51am14 years I waited for answer, better late than never!Marky Dread wrote: ↑26 Dec 2022, 1:35pmAnd she'll give you those Rabies from Venus
We'll all have that love disease between us
Nah, someone actually answered this already in a different thread many years ago, but cheers Marky.
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?
Nobody really thinks about you when you’re gone.
Not true, but I love the line and the song.
Not true, but I love the line and the song.
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I agree and in fact its the complete opposite "every one loves you when you're dead"
Its amazing how much of a genius Joe was with hes lyrics and with the music being so great it can make you forget sometimes how good a lyricist he really was. I mean we all know how good he is but when you separate the lyrics in a thread like this it makes you stop and think wow.
This is a great thread really enjoyed reading all the quotes.
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I've got to get away
From the pain you drive into the heart of me
The love we share seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my life
From the pain you drive into the heart of me
The love we share seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my life
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Napster classique.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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"I don't want to hear about what the rich are doing
I don't want to go to where the rich are going
They think they're so clever, they think they're so right
But the truth is only known by guttersnipes"
"'N' every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll
Grabs the mike to tell us he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this - and it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns will later join the church"
"I see a million walk the city mile
The tickertape kings and the juveniles
Will anybody tell me which way to go
Will anybody come back on the C.B. radio
I'm counting the stars and the telegraph poles
And each one represents the hopes of a soul
You'd think that God wouldn't be so hard
When you see all the little children running, running in the backyard
On a Mississippi gourd with a Sub-Sahran song
Somebody is wailing in the financial district sun
Can anybody feel the distance to the Nile
I wanna live and I wanna dance awhile"
I don't want to go to where the rich are going
They think they're so clever, they think they're so right
But the truth is only known by guttersnipes"
"'N' every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll
Grabs the mike to tell us he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this - and it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns will later join the church"
"I see a million walk the city mile
The tickertape kings and the juveniles
Will anybody tell me which way to go
Will anybody come back on the C.B. radio
I'm counting the stars and the telegraph poles
And each one represents the hopes of a soul
You'd think that God wouldn't be so hard
When you see all the little children running, running in the backyard
On a Mississippi gourd with a Sub-Sahran song
Somebody is wailing in the financial district sun
Can anybody feel the distance to the Nile
I wanna live and I wanna dance awhile"
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That "you'd think that God wouldnt be so hard" line really gets me every time. Such a great little song and wonderful lyric. And Cholo Vest too, touch sentimental perhaps but love the raw emotion in it.