The Clash

Album: London Calling

Date: December 1979
Label: Epic

Mick Jones: Guitars, vocals
Joe Strummer: Guitars, vocals
Paul Simonon: Bass, vocals on 10
Topper Headon: Drums

London Calling

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Track Listing:

London Calling
Brand New Cadillac
Jimmy Jazz
Hateful
Rudie Can't Fail
Spanish Bombs
The Right Profile
Lost in the Supermarket
Clampdown
The Guns of Brixton
Wrong 'Em Boyo
Death Or Glory
Koka Kola
The Card Cheat
Lover's Rock
Four Horsemen
I'm Not Down
Revolution Rock
Train in Vain


Lyrics:

Our version Top  LONDON CALLING (Jones/Strummer)

London calling to the faraway towns
Now that war is declared - and battle come dovn
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard all you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
All that phoney beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running and the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
London is drowning - and I live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it brother an' go it alone
London calling upon the zombies of death
Quit holding out - and take another breath
London calling - and I don't wanna shoot
But when we were talking - I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no highs
Except for that one with the yellowy eyes

The ice age...

London calling, yeah, I was there too
An' I know what they said? Well some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
After all this, won't you give me a smile?


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Our version Top  HATEFUL (Jones/Strummer)

Well, I got a friend who's a man
Who's a man? What man?
The man who keeps me from the lovely

He gives me what I need
What you need? What you got?
I need it all so badly

[Chorus]

Oh, anything I want he gives it to me
Anything I want he gives it, but not for free
It's hateful
And it's paid for and I'm so grateful to be nowhere

This year I've lost some friends
Some friends? What friends?
I dunno, I ain't even noticed

You see, I gotta go out again
Again? My friend
I gotta see that mainman

[Chorus x2 ]

I killed all my nerves
My nerves? What swerves?
And I can't drive so steady
And already

I've lost my memory
My mind? Behind!
I can't see so clearly

[Chorus]
 
 
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