The Clash

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Janie Jones

02 : 08

Remote Control

03 : 03

I’m So Bored With the U.S.A.

02 : 24

White Riot

01 : 56

Hate & War

02 : 06

What’s My Name

01 : 41

Deny

03 : 06

London’s Burning

02 : 12

Career Opportunities

01 : 54

Cheat

02 : 06

Protex Blue

01 : 47

Police & Thieves

06 : 03

48 Hours

01 : 36

Garageland

03 : 12

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Track Lyrics

Janie Jones Lyrics

[Chorus]

He's in love with the rock 'n' roll world

He's in love with getting stoned, whoa

He's in love with Janie Jones' world

He don't like his borin' job, no

He's in love with the rock 'n' roll world

He's in love with getting stoned, whoa

He's in love with Janie Jones' world

He don't like his borin' job, no

[Verse 1]

And he knows what he got to do

He knows he's gonna have fun with you

You lucky lady

And he knows when the evenin' comes

When his job is done he'll be over in his car for you

[Chorus]

He's in love with the rock 'n' roll world

He's in love with getting stoned, whoa

He's in love with Janie Jones' world

He don't like his borin' job, no

[Verse 2]

In the in-tray lots of work

But the boss at the firm always thinks he shirks

But he's just like everyone, he got a Ford Cortina

That just won't run without fuel

Fill her up, Jacko

[Chorus]

He's in love with the rock 'n' roll world

He's in love with getting stoned, whoa

He's in love with Janie Jones' world

He don't like his borin' job, no

[Verse 3]

And the invoice, it don't quite fit

No payola in his alphabetical file

'Cept for the government, man

And he's just gonna really tell the boss

He's gonna really let him know exactly how he feels

It's pretty bad

[Chorus]

He's in love with the rock 'n' roll world

He's in love with getting stoned, whoa

He's in love with Janie Jones' world

He don't like his borin' job, no

[Outro]

Let them know

Remote Control Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Who needs remote control

From the Civic Hall?

Push a button

Activate

You gotta work

You're late

[Verse 2]

It's so grey in London town

Panda car crawlin' around

Here it comes

Eleven o'clock

Where can we go now?

[Chorus]

Can't make no noise

Can't get no gear

Can't make no money

Can't get outta here

[Verse 3]

Big business, it don't like you

Don't like the things you do

They got no money

They got no power

They think you're useless

And so you are, punk

[Verse 4]

They had a meeting in Mayfair

They got you down and they wanna keep you there

It makes them worried

Their bank accounts

That's all that matters

You don't count

[Chorus]

Can't make no progress

Can't get ahead

Can't stop the regress

Don't wanna be dead

[Post-Chorus]

(Look out those rules and regulations)

[Verse 5]

Who needs the Parliament?

Sittin' makin' laws all day

They're all fat and old

Queuein' for the House of Lords

Repression (Gonna start on Tuesday)

Repression (Gonna be a Dalek)

Repression (I am a robot)

Repression (I obey)

I’m So Bored With the U.S.A. Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Yankee soldier

He wanna shoot some skag

He met it in Cambodia

But now he can't afford a bag

Yankee dollar talk

To the dictator of the world

In fact it's giving orders

And they can't afford to miss a word

[Chorus]

I'm so bored with the U.S.A

But what can I do?

[Verse 2]

Yankee detectives

Are always on the TV

Because killers in America

Work seven days a week

Never mind the stars and stripes

Let's play the Watergate Tapes

I'll salute the New Wave

And I hope nobody escapes

[Chorus]

I'm so bored with the U.S.A

But what can I do?

[Chorus]

I'm so bored with the U.S.A

But what can I do?

[Chorus]

I'm so bored with the U.S.A

But what can I do?

[Outro]

Move up Starsky

For the C.I.A

Suck on Kojak

For the U.S.A

White Riot Lyrics

[Intro]

One, two, three, four

[Chorus]

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

[Verse 1]

Black man got a lotta problems

But they don't mind throwin' a brick

White people go to school

Where they teach you how to be thick

[Pre-Chorus]

And everybody's doin'

Just what they're told to

And nobody wants

To go to jail

[Chorus]

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

[Verse 2]

All the power's in the hands

Of the people rich enough to buy it

While we walk the street

Too chicken to even try it

[Pre-Chorus]

And everybody's doin'

Just what they're told to

And nobody wants

To go to jail

[Chorus]

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

[Bridge]

Hey, you, standing in line

Are we gonna sign an agreement?

[Chorus]

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

White riot, I wanna riot

White riot, a riot of my own

Hate & War Lyrics

[Intro]

Hate and war

The only things we got today

[Verse 1]

And if I close my eyes

It will not go away

You have to deal with it

It is the currency

[Break]

Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

[Verse 2]

The hate of a nation

A million miles from home

And get war from the junkies

Who don't like my form

I'm gonna stay in the city

Even when the house fall down

I don't dream of a holiday

When hate and war come around

[Chorus]

Hate and war

The only thing we got today

Hate and war

The only thing

[Verse 3]

I have no will to survive

I cheat if I can't win

If someone locks me out

I kick my way back in

And if I get aggression

I give it two time back

Every day it's just the same

With hate and war on my back

[Chorus]

Hate and war (I hate English men)

Hate and war (Just as bad as wops)

Hate and war (I hate all the politeness)

Hate and war (I hate all the cops)

Hate and war (I want to walk down any street)

Hate and war (Dressed like a creep)

Hate and war (I don't care if I get beat up)

Hate and war (By any rotten Greek)

What’s My Name Lyrics

[Verse 1]

What the hell is wrong with me?

I'm not who I want to be

I tried spot cream and I tried it all

Crawlin' up the wall

[Chorus]

What's my name?

Name

[Verse 2]

I tried to join a ping-pong club

Sign on the door said "All full up"

I got nicked, fightin' in the road

The judge didn't even know

[Chorus]

What's my name?

Name

[Bridge]

Dad got pissed so I got clocked

Couldn't hear the Tannoy so he lost the lot

Offers mum a bribe through the letter box

Drives you fucking mad

[Verse 3]

I'm 'round the back of your house at night

Peepin' in the window, are you sleepin' tight?

I laugh at your locks with my celluloid strip

And you won't know who came

[Outro]

What's my name?

Name

What's my name?

Name

Deny Lyrics

[Chorus]

Deny, you're such a liar

Wouldn't know the truth if it hit you in the eye

Deny, you're such a liar

Sellin' your no-no all the time

[Verse 1]

And you said we were goin' out to The Hundred Club

Then you said, "It ain't my scene"

Then you turned up alone

[Chorus]

Deny, you're such a liar

Wouldn't know the truth hit you in the street

Deny, you're such a liar

You're sellin' your no-no all the time

[Verse 2]

Then said you'd given it up

Gone and kicked it in the head

You said you ain't had none for weeks

Baby, I seen your arms

[Chorus]

Deny, you're such a liar

Wouldn't know the truth if it hit you in the eye

Deny, you're such a liar

Sellin' your no-no all the time

[Bridge]

Do you think I'm a ravin' idiot?

Just got off the boat

"Step in line, sign this form"

Baby, ain't got a heart

You ain't got a hope

[Outro]

Deny, you're such a liar

Deny, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies

Let's hear it for true love

You know, like in the 12P comic

In a room filled with scream

A-with ice cream

Boy meets girl

Somebody gets run over

Oh, everybody cried

But I don't know why

I'm a fool, I can't control

I've read a-one too many books

I believe everything I read

What they've written in the Slutsville paper

Deny, you're such a lie

(What a liar, what a liar, what a liar)

(What a liar)

London’s Burning Lyrics

[Intro]

London's burning

[Verse 1]

All across the town, all across the night

Everybody's drivin' with full headlights

Black or white you turn it on, you face the new religion

Everybody's sittin' 'round watching television

[Chorus]

London's burning (With boredom now)

London's burning (Dial 99999)

London's burning (With boredom now)

London's burning (Dial 99999)

[Verse 2]

I'm up and down the Westway, in and out the lights

What a great traffic system, it's so bright

I can't think of a better way to spend the night

Than speedin' around underneath the yellow lights

[Chorus]

London's burning (With boredom now)

London's burning (Dial 99999)

London's burning (With boredom now)

London's burning (Dial 99999)

[Verse 3]

Now I'm in the subway and I'm lookin' for the flat

This one leads to this block, this one leads to that

The wind howls through the empty blocks looking for a home

I run through the empty stone because I'm all alone

[Chorus]

London's burning (With boredom now)

London's burning (Dial 99999)

London's burning (With boredom now)

London's burning (Dial 99999)

[Outro]

Here we go

Yeah, here we are riding along the West London motorway

On your left we see the tower blocks built in 1963

With a massive repair bill for the GLC

And over there you see Westbourne Park

They don't want a traffic system to park the car

London's burning

Career Opportunities Lyrics

[Verse 1]

They offered me the office, offered me the shop

They said I'd better take anything they'd got

Do you wanna make tea at the BBC?

Do you wanna be, do you really wanna be a cop?

[Chorus]

Career opportunity, the one that never knocks

Every job they offer you's to keep you out the dock

Career opportunity, the one that never knocks

[Verse 2]

I hate the army and I hate the RAF

I don't wanna go fighting in the tropical heat

I hate the civil service rules

I won't open letter bombs for you

[Chorus]

Career opportunity, the one that never knock

Every job they offer you's to keep you out the dock

Career opportunity, the one that never knock

[Bridge]

Bus driver

Ambulance man

The ticket inspector

I don't understand

[Verse 3]

They're gonna have to introduce conscription

They're gonna have to take away my prescription

If they wanna get me makin' toys

If they wanna get me, well, I got no choice

[Chorus]

Career opportunity, the one that never knock

Every job they offer you's to keep you out the dock

Career opportunity, the one that never knock

[Outro]

Career

It ain't never gonna knock

Cheat Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I get violent when I'm fucked up

I get silent when I'm drugged up

Want excitement, don't get none, I go wild

I don't know what can be done about it

If you play the game you get nothin' out of it

Find out for yourself, try bein' a goody goody

[Chorus]

You better cheat, cheat, no reason to play fair

Cheat, cheat or don't get anywhere

Cheat, cheat if you can't win

Hey

[Verse 2]

Nobody knows what they are doin'

Beyond your control, Friday night's a ruin

You wanna survive, you better learn how to lie

[Chorus]

You better cheat, cheat, no reason to play fair

Cheat, cheat or don't get anywhere

Cheat, cheat if you can't win

[Verse 3]

Don't use the rules

They're not for you, they're for the fools

And you're a fool if you don't know that

So use the rule, you stupid fool

Protex Blue Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Standin' in the bog of a West End bar

Guy on the right leanin' over too far

Money in my pocket gonna put it in the slot

Open up the pack, see what type I got

[Chorus]

I didn't want to hold you

I didn't want to use you

Protex, Protex blue

All I wanna do

[Verse 2]

It's a fab protective for that type of a girl

But everybody knows that she uses it well

It's the therapeutic structure I can use at will

But I don't think it fit my B.D. drill

[Chorus]

I didn't want to hold you

I didn't want to use you

Protex, Protex blue

All I wanna do

[Refrain]

Protex, Protex blue

All I wanna do

[Verse 3]

Sittin' in a carriage of a Bakerloo

Erotica my pocket got a packet for you

Advert on the escalator on my way home

I don't need no skin flicks, I wanna be alone

[Chorus]

I didn't want to hold you

I didn't want to use you

Protex, Protex blue

All I wanna do, ooh, ooh

[Outro]

Johnny, Johnny

Police & Thieves Lyrics

[Intro]

They're going through a tight wind

[Chorus]

Police and thieves in the street (Oh yeah)

Scarin' the nation with their guns and ammunition

Police and thieves in the streets (Oh yeah)

Fightin' the nation with their guns and ammunition

From genesis to revelation

The next generation will be, hear me

From genesis to revelation

The next generation will be, hear me

[Pre-Chorus]

And all the crowd come in, a-day by day

No one stops it in anyway

All the peacemaker, third world officer

Hear what I say

[Chorus]

Police and thieves in the street (Oh yeah)

Scarin' the nation with their guns and ammunition

Police and thieves in the street (Oh yeah)

Fightin' the nation with their guns and ammunition

From genesis to revelation

The next generation will be, hear me

(Oh yeah)

[Pre-Chorus]

And all the crowd come in, day by day

No one stop it in anyway

All the peacemaker, third world officer

Hear what I say

[Chorus]

Police, police, police and thieves (Oh yeah)

From genesis (Oh yeah)

Police, police, police, police and thieves, oh yeah

[Bridge]

And I'm scarin', I'm fightin' the nation (Oh yeah)

Shootin', shootin' their guns and, guns and ammunition (Oh yeah)

(Oh yeah)

Police, police, police and thieves (Oh yeah)

I'm scarin'

(Oh yeah)

I'm scarin' the nation, police (Oh yeah)

(Oh yeah)

Here come, here come, here come

The station is bombed (Oh yeah)

Get out, get out, get out, you people

If you don't want to get blown up (Oh yeah)

The police, the police and the thieves (Oh yeah)

You gotta lick the ground

But you are trapped in the middle, punk

[Outro]

Police, police, police, police

48 Hours Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Friday or Saturday, what does that mean?

Short space of time and needs a heavy scene

Monday is comin' like a jail on wheels

[Chorus]

Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight

Forty-eight hours needs a-forty-eight

Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight

Thrills, forty-eight thrills

[Verse 2]

So tell me, and I'll take the tube

You know a girl, yeah, well, she's bound to be rude

Can't a-get a-nothin' at the places I've been

[Chorus]

Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight

Forty-eight hours needs a-forty-eight

Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight

Thrills, thrills

[Verse 3]

I've combed this town from top to bottom

Try to get around but my legs are broken

Every time I miss it 'cause I ain't got a ticket

[Chorus]

Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight

Thrills, forty-eight thrills

Cheap thrills

And he got thrills

Kickin' for kicks

[Chorus]

Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight

Thrills

Garageland Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Back in the garage with my bullshit detector

Carbon monoxide makin' sure it's effective

People ringin' up makin' offers for my life

I just want to stay in the garage all night

[Chorus]

We're a garage band

(Oh-oh-oh)

We come from Garageland

(Oh-oh-oh)

[Verse 2]

Meanwhile things are hottin' up in the West End alright

Contracts in the offices, groups in the night

My bumming slumming friends have all got new boots

And someone just asked me if the group would wear suits

[Chorus]

We're a garage band

(Oh-oh-oh)

We come from Garageland

(Oh-oh-oh)

[Verse 3]

I don't wanna hear about what the rich are doin'

I don't wanna go to where, where the rich are goin'

They think they're so clever, they think they're so right

But the truth is only known by guttersnipes

[Chorus]

We're a garage band

(Oh-oh-oh)

We come from Garageland

(Oh-oh-oh)

[Bridge]

Twenty-two singers

One microphone

Back in the garage

Five guitar players

One guitar

Back in the garage

Complaints, complaints

What an old bag

[Outro]

Back in the garage

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Track Lyrics

Janie Jones Lyrics

Remote Control Lyrics

I’m So Bored With the U.S.A. Lyrics

White Riot Lyrics

Hate & War Lyrics

What’s My Name Lyrics

Deny Lyrics

London’s Burning Lyrics

Career Opportunities Lyrics

Cheat Lyrics

Protex Blue Lyrics

Police & Thieves Lyrics

48 Hours Lyrics

Garageland Lyrics