Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

Hey ho hey! Its the acid test. got a busy day, I'm wearing a vest Hey ho hey try not to get bent got a busy day, I'm wearing a vest hey hey It's all in a day hey hey It's all in a day The armor ten, and the I95 Tupuolo Joe honey and his rhumba jive. the loo...

Sometimes, there’s no star shining Scouting the edge of the universe Sometimes, you can’t see a horizon Between the ocean and the earth And just when you’re thinking About slinkin’ down I’m gonna pull you up I’m gonna pull you round May I remind you of that...

We built the buildings of the new city Out of the broken down peoples And we built the new languages Out of courtesy and velocity Somebody got to have propulsion Push the envelope Extra, extra - read all about it Common sense makes a comeback Extra, extra - l...

Well, I was walking down the High Road And this guy stops me He'd just got in from New Zealand And he was looking for mushy peas I said, no, we hadn't really got 'em round here I said, but we do got Balti, Bhindi, strictly Hindi Dall, Halal and I'm walking do...

It was me, drove off the off ramp Of the sweetheart highway It was me, I admit I had the map This is what I gotta say We're in Bummed Out City That's what the sign says I plead your mercy and your pity Is not life a mirror maze The hardware store is never op...

The sirens' risin' There's a distant blues dance on a crowded street The temperature's a-risin' Soon you're gonna be runnin' down Those burnin' streets, come on The century that's hardly on its feet And the late news breaks early Does the sun rise from the w...

I was crawling through a festival way out west i was thinking about love and the acid test but first i got real dizzy with a real rockin' gang then i saw the coma girl, on the excitement gang and the rain came in from the wide blue yonder through all the...

Late news breaking this just in Late news breaking this just in Yeah, coolin' out Yeah, coolin' out Yeah, coolin' out God sure baked a lot of fruitcake, baby When Adam met the Eden lady They're walking the streets and they're driving cars They're all over the...

Yeah, oh One of those top nights of the year And I see everyone's here Oh, took me a long time to get it But when its taken time Think and don't forget it You gotta live in this world, go diggin' the new Live in this world - boy, tran or girl Live in this wor...

Okay, dream of freedom Under the moon in the dragon room Inside the mind of a soul confined Don't talk about soon in the dragon room Under the scream of a jet machine Who knows in the hills Who knows when she will When all the hidden pity in the forbi...

It's nine o'clock in the Chinese take-away And I blame the effect on the gamma ray, the gamma ray Well, losing out on mah jong I set my watch to Hong Kong I blame it all on the gamma ray I hear the triad has crossed the Tong In Indianapolis, home of the gamma...

Once I got to the mountain top, tell you what I could see, Prairie full of lost souls running from the priests of iniquity Where the hell was Elijah? What do you do when the prophecy game was through? We gotta take the walls of Jericho Put your lips together...

World service bulletin from the nightshift D.J. To all wavebands on earth Reconnoitre on the killahertz This tune is going out to Marconi To all corners of the globe There ain't no hut in the Serengeti Where my wavelengths do not probe If a rocket went...

Lord, there goes Johnny Appleseed He might pass by in the hour of need There's a lot of souls Ain't drinking from no well locked in a factory Hey - look there goes Hey - look there goes If you're after getting the honey - hey Then you don't go killing...

Well I'll tell you on thing that I know You don't face your demons down You got to grab em jack And pin em to the ground The Devil may care, and maybe God he won't Better make sure you check on the Do's and the Don'ts Crawl up the Mountain To r...

I took a tram into the fourth dimension Cos I had the blues, the blues of throwing it all away Just gimme a Tequila, I'll slam it the 4-D way And when I got there you know it had certain similarities Like no smoking anywhere And hiding in the khazi to av...

AlI transmitters to fall, All receivers to thirst, This is London calling, This is London calling, All right everybody, Once again, I 'm tuning in the best chance you, Can find anywhere in the world, At any time, any place, Now I'd like to let it rip, On the...

The minstrel boy to the war has gone In the ranks of death you'll find him His father's sword he has girded on And his wild harp slung behind him "Land of Song!" said the warrior bard "Though all the world betrays thee One sword, at least, thy rights sh...

was patrolling a Pachinko Nude noodle model parlor in the Nefarious zone Hanging out with insects under ducting The C.I.A was on the phone Well, such is life Latino caribo, mondo bongo The flower looks good in your hair Latino caribo, mondo bongo Nobo...

Gonna take a nitcomb to get rid of me Cos I just realized that it was meant to be And I'm singing to all the torn betting slips Flying around my feet I'm talking to all the chewing gum That's stuck everywhere on the street And they're ringing the bells all ove...

Muffle the drums.. and hope the new century comes…? Was it all the amphetamine presidents and their busy wives Or did Manhattan crumble the day Marilyn died? All your life you dreamed a dream Somehow connected with the silver screen With half closed eyes you...

"I'd like to say that people... people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. Show me any country... and there'll be people in it just trying to take their humanity back into the center of the ring... And follow that for a t...

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 y...

One, two A one, two, three K I'm gonna go out dancin' every night I'm gonna see all the city lights I'll do everything silver and gold I got to hurry up before I grow too old I'm gonna take a trip around the world I'm gonna kiss all the pretty girls I'll do...

Well it was a techno D-day out on Omaha beach I was a reserve D.J. playing Columbian mountain beats Andres Landero, ay mi sombrero Hold onto your hats, we gotta go Because the noise inspectors with the sound detectors Were coming on down the beach A...

On the road to rock 'n' roll There's a lot of wreckage in the ravine Some you recognise Used to hang out on the scene On the road to rock 'n' roll We'll be in the delta by and by And if you don't believe in good and evil You can tell the devil why On...

Late news breakin', this just in Tonight there was a power cut in the city of madness And all conversations died in the burst of a solar flare In the darkness an angel won the beauty pagent Stroboscopic snowflakes fell from the stratosphere And all the neon bl...

From Willesden to Cricklewood I tell you the town looked good Walking lonely avenues Where rhinestone cowboys find the blues There's people in doing their thing Gettin' all the mozzarella in And the passing time and phassing moons Words flying in cloudy rooms...

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...

Well, so long liberty Let's forget you didn't show Not in my time But in our sons' and daughters' time When you get the feeling Call and you got a room Meantime, we're cutting our hands at the ke-bab shop In the streets of fear Forgetting all our best tae-kwon...