And declare "Death Or Glory" the best fucking song The Clash ever wrote. Anyone?
Death Or Glory
Now every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world
Ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl
LOVE and HATE tattooed across the knuckles of his hands
Hands that slap his kids around 'cause they don't understand how
Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory becomes just another story
And 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
Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory becomes just another story
Fear in the gun-sights
They say lie low
You say okay
Don't wanna play the show
Now all you're thinking
"Was it death or glory now?"
Playing the blues of kings
Sure looks better now
Death or glory just another story
Death or glory just another story
From every dingy basement on every dingy street
Every dragging handclap over every dragging beat
It's just the beat of time the beat that must go on
If you've been trying for years we already heard your song
Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory just another story
We gonna march a long way
Fight a long time
We got to travel over mountains
Got to travel over seas
We gonna fight your brother
We gonna fight 'til you lose
We gonna raise trouble
We gonna raise hell
We gonna fight your brother
Raise hell
Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory just another story
Death or glory becomes just another story
3 comments:
I'll join you on that limb. Its funny, I was just digging on this track not more than two weeks ago. Talk about a band that got on a roll and was just firing on all cylinders. As pretentious as it was, the 'only band that matters' thing really gets backed up here.
As a late comer to Clash fandom, I'm not sure I've earned a vote here, but the campaign button I'm wearing says London Calling.
You know, I've never read the lyrics, I'm sorry to say. Funnily enough I listened to "Story of the Clash" in its entirety on the Thanksgiving road trip. While I might also join you out on the limb as saying this is the quintessential Clash song, I still get all tingly when I hear 'Spanish Bombs.' It's prolly not a better song, but I like it better. So there.
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