The Essential Clash

Ring! Ring! It's 7:00 A.M.! Move why'self to go again Cold water in the face Brings you back to this awful place Knuckle merchants and you bankers, too Must get up an' learn those rules Weather man and the crazy chief One says sun and one says sleet

In 1977 I hope I go to heaven Cause I been too long on the dole And I can't work at all Danger stranger You better paint your face No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones In 1977 In 1977 Knives in West Eleven Lent so lucky to be rich Sten guns in Kn

This is Radio Clash Stealing all transmissions Beaming from the mountaintop Using aural ammunition With extreme prejudice On a terminator mission This is Radio Clash Consider your position Step it up, get down low Breaking news flash Assassination Th

The High Street shops are boarded up An' the terrace it is fenced in See-through shields are walled across The way that you came in But there's no need to get excited As the lorries bring the bacon in 'cause the housewives are all singing Groovy time