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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 
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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:
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?
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]
