Comandante Joe (for Joe Strummer) Lyrics

BLOOD FOR OIL Armymen on TV, salivatingDiscussing tactics, almost masturbatingCannon fodder - it’s a Gulf War volunteerGonna die in the desert for the sake of a rich emirThey toa...Read Full Lyrics

You�ve got to be young and black to rap, right?So I�ve no chance �cos I�m old, punk rock and white...You�ve got to be young and black to rap? Wrong!Anyone ...Read Full Lyrics

Prepubescent imagery.Empty, stupid eyes.Waif thin. Tyrannical.No fat.No body hair.No character, no love, no personality -no brain.So thin, and yet...so thick.By your anodyne compli...Read Full Lyrics

Here�s one about the biggest corporate power of all....�We will not let the mechanisms of death fall into the hands of men with no respect for life�(�PRESIDENTÃ...Read Full Lyrics

While I wrote this song I was, as well, as angry as hell about what Blair was doing, licking Bush's bottom! The table (it has a brass plaque) is in the Mother Shipton Inn, Knaresbo...Read Full Lyrics

If I gotta sit aroundand watch this I'm likely to screamAnd if you think it does not bother me my friend well you don't know anythingI am gonna finish off this drink at home so tha...Read Full Lyrics

Fall southern rainThrough my fingersThrough my veinsFall southern rainAnd wash her awayFall on this empty manDrip like nailsThrough my handsFall southern rainAnd wash her awayHer l...Read Full Lyrics

And this world is just atomsSpinning slowlyOther people are shadowsLost and lonelyBut they're giving us rules to followAnd they're giving us lies to swallowLet's break away tonight...Read Full Lyrics

After all these recent eventsI'll be replaying words and sifting through documentsPlacing out old mats and souvenirsBits that I collected through the yearsI'll reflect on old habit...Read Full Lyrics

You're a complicated person with some educated friendsAnd you tend to form your sentences from words wrote on your handsBut you wake up the rhythm in me, and you wake up the rhymeI...Read Full Lyrics