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| | | Artist: | Clash |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Something About England | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 2 | | | | Lyrics: | They say immigrants steal the hubcaps
Of the respected gentlemen
They say it would be wine
an' roses
If England were for Englishmen again
Well I saw a dirty overcoat
At the
foot of the pillar of the road
Propped inside was an old man
Whom time would not
erode
When the night was snapped by sirens
Those blue lights circled fast
The dancehall
called for an' ambulance
The bars all closed up fast
My silence gazing at the
ceiling
While roaming the single room
I thought the old man could help me
If he could
explain the gloom
You really think it's all new
You really think about it too
The old
man scoffed as he spoke to me
I'll tell you a thing or two
I missed the
fourteen-eighteen war
But not the sorrow afterwards
With my father dead and my mother ran
off
My brothers took the pay of hoods
The twenties turned the north was dead
The hunger
strike came marching south
At the garden party not a word was said
The ladies lifted cake to
their mouths
The next war began and my ship sailed
With battle orders writ in
bed
In five long years of bullets and shells
We left tem million dead
The few returned
to old Piccadily
We limped around Leicster Square
The world was busy rebuilding
itself
The architects could not care
But how could we know when I was young
All the
canges that were to come?
All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield
And now the
terror of the scientific sun
There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs
They
taught you how to touch your cap
But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace
England
never closed this gap
So leave me now the moon is up
But remember all | | | |
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