Combat Rock

[Intro]

This is a public service announcement... with guitar!

[Chorus]

Know your rights

All three of 'em

[Verse 1]

Number one

You have the right not to be killed

Murder is a crime

Unless it was done

By a Policeman

Or an aristocrat

[Chorus]

Oh, know your rights

[Verse 2]

And Number two

You have the right to food money

Providing of course you

Don't mind a little

Investigation, humiliation

And if you cross your fingers

Rehabilitation

[Chorus]

Know your rights

These are your rights!

Hey, say, Wang

[Verse 3]

Oh, know these rights

[Verse 4]

Number three

You have the right to free speech

As long as you're not

Dumb enough to actually try it

[Chorus]

Know your rights

These are your rights

Oh, know your rights

These are your rights

All three of 'em, ha

[Outro]

And it has been suggested

In some quarters that this is not enough

Well, get off the streets

Get off the streets!

[Verse 1]

Tonight, they're closing up the world

And sweepin' smoke from cigarettes

And what is that? Funky multi-national Anthem

Rocking from a thousand King Kong cassette decks

Then a shy boy from Missouri, boots blown off in a '60s war

Riding aluminum crutches, now he knows the welfare kindness

Agent Orange colour blindness

As we works from door to door

The violence in the carpets

The error of his wife (In a car jam)

Drives the slum-bum dweller

To grind his hunting knife (In a car jam)

In homesteads of cigar box

The radios hive like bees (In a car jam)

The body in the ice box

Has no date for freeze (In a car jam)

[Chorus]

In a car jam

[Verse 2]

Selling is what selling sells

But only saints on the seven avenues

Can sell the seven hells

Fanning out the drug-afflicted leperising zone

Once inside the executive

He never leaves his home

Now, gorillas drag their victims

Hyenas try to sue (In a car jam)

Snakes find grass in concrete

There is no city zoo (In a car jam)

By ventilation units, the towers meet the streets (In a car jam)

The ragged stand in bags soaking heat up through their feet (In a car jam)

This was the only kindness

It was accidental, too

[Chorus]

In a car jam

In a car jam

[Bridge]

Now shaking single-engined planes are trafficking stereos from Cuba

Buzzed the holy zealot mass and drowned out Missa Luba

They drowned out Missa Luba

They drowned out Missa Luba

They drowned out Missa Luba

I thought I saw Lauren Bacall

I thought I saw Lauren Bacall (In a car jam)

I swear

Hey fellas, Hey fellas

Lauren Bacall (In a car jam)

In a car jam

Yeah, I don't believe it

In a car jam

Ah, yeah, positively, absolutely

[Chorus]

In a car jam

In a car jam

In a car jam

In a car jam

In a car jam

In a car jam

In a car jam

[Intro]

Oh! Hola!

[Verse 1]

Darling, you got to let me know

Should I stay, or should I go?

If you say that you are mine

I'll be here till the end of time

So you got to let me know

Should I stay, or should I go?

[Verse 2]

It's always tease, tease, tease

You're happy when I'm on my knees

One day it's fine, and next it's black

So if you want me off your back

Well, come on and let me know

Should I stay, or should I go?

[Chorus]

Should I stay, or should I go now?

Should I stay, or should I go now?

If I go, there will be trouble

And if I stay, it will be double

So come on and let me know

[Verse 3]

This indecision's bugging me (Esta indecisión me molesta)

If you don't want me, set me free (Si no me quieres, librarme)

Exactly whom I'm supposed to be (Dígame que tengo ser)

Don't you know which clothes even fit me? (Sabes que ropa me "quedrá"?)

Come on and let me know (Me tienes que decir)

Should I cool it, or should I blow? (Me debo ir o quedarme?)

Split

[Bridge]

(Doble! ¿Me frio o lo soplo?)

(Esperda, rrattarrattattaa...)

[Chorus]

Should I stay, or should I go now? (Yo me enfrío o lo soplo)

Should I stay, or should I go now? (Yo me enfrío o lo soplo)

If I go, there will be trouble (Si me voy va a haber peligro)

And if I stay, it will be double (Si me quedo sera el doble)

So ya gotta let me know (Me tienes que decir)

Should I cool it, or should I blow? (Tengo frío por los ojos)

Should I stay, or should I go now? (Tengo frío por los ojos)

If I go, there will be trouble (Si me voy va haber peligro)

And if I stay, it will be double (Si me quedo será el doble)

So ya gotta let me know (Me tienes que decir)

Should I stay, or should I go?

[Verse 1]

Now the king told the boogie men

"You have to let that raga drop

The oil down the desert way

Has been shaken to the top"

The Sheikh, he drove his Cadillac

He went a-cruising down the ville

The Muezzin was a-standing on the radiator grille

[Chorus]

Sharif don't like it

Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah

Sharif don't like it

Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah

[Verse 2]

By order of the prophet

We ban that boogie sound

Degenerate the faithful

With that crazy Casbah sound

The Bedouin, they brought out

The electric kettle drum

The local guitar picker

Got his guitar-picking thumb

As soon as the Sharif

Cleared the square

They began to wail

[Chorus]

Sharif don't like it

Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah

Sharif don't like it

Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah

[Verse 3]

Now over at the temple

Oh, they really pack 'em in

The in-crowd say it's cool

To dig this chanting thing

But as the wind changed direction

And the temple band took five

The crowd caught a whiff of that crazy Casbah jive

[Chorus]

Sharif don't like it

Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah

Sharif don't like it

Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah

[Verse 4]

The king called up his jet fighters

He said, "You better earn your pay

Drop your bombs between the minarets

Down the Casbah way"

As soon as the Sharif was

Chauffeured outta there

The jet pilots tuned to

The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the Sharif was

Out of their hair

The jet pilots wailed

[Chorus]

Sharif don't like it

Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah

Sharif don't like it

Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah

[Outro]

(Sharif don't like it)

Thinks it's not kosher

(Rocking the Casbah

Rock the Casbah)

(Sharif don't like it)

Fundamentally can't take it

(Rocking the Casbah

Rock the Casbah)

(Sharif don't like it)

You know he really hates it

(Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah)

(Sharif don't like it)

Really, really hates it

[Verse 1: Kosmo Vinyl]

I come from a long way away

And I know a fine thing when I see it

See it

For the same reason no one ever

Pointed a telescope at the sun

Talking about the Red Angels of N-Y City

[Hook: The Clash]

Who shot the shot?

Who got shot tonight?

Who shot the shot?

Who got shot tonight?

[Verse 2]

Not even five enforcement agencies can save their own

Never mind the people

Tonight it's raining on the Angels of the City

Did anyone prophesize these people?

Only Travis

Come in, Travis

"All the animals come out at night

Queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal

Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets"

"Thank god for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk

Listen you screwheads

Here is a man who would not take it anymore

A man who stood up against the scum, the filth

Now I see clearly"

"Personally I know the alley

Where Jack feeds on the birds of night

Not even bubbies bicycling 2x2

Can stop the blood and feathers flying"

[Hook]

[Verse 3]

Wearing overalls and for once and for all

What is the dream?

I'll tell it

To live like they do in the movies

San Juan, you listening?

Yeah I bet you are

Hands up for Hollywood

(Hooray)

I hear you

Snappy on the air

Hang in there

Wall to wall

You saved the world

What else? You saved the girl

Champagne on ice

No stranger to Alcatraz

To boot

Or strip it down

Chop it a little

Being reasonable

Just freedom to move

To live

For women to take a walk in the park at midnight

Hey, but this is serious

She can't even get back home

Who shot the shot

[Instrumental Intro 00:00-00:43]

[Verse 1]

If you can play on fiddle

How's about a British jig and reel?

Speaking King's English in quotation

As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust

Water froze

In the generation

Clear as winter ice

This is your paradise

[Chorus]

There ain't no need for ya

There ain't no need for ya

Go straight to hell, boys

Go straight to hell, boys

[Verse 2]

Wanna join in a chorus of the Amerasian blues?

When it's Christmas out in Ho Chi Minh City

Kiddie say papa, papa, papa, papa, papa-san, take me home

See me got photo, photo, photograph of you

And mama, mama, mama-san

Of you and mama, mama, mama-san

Let me tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo, kid

It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice

[Chorus]

Straight to hell, boy

Go straight to hell, boy

Go straight to hell, boys

Go straight to hell, boy

[Bridge]

Oh papa-san, please take me home

Oh papa-san, everybody, they wanna go home

So mama-san says

[Instrumental Break 03:01-03:23]

[Verse 3]

"You wanna play mind-crazed banjo

On the druggy-drag ragtime U.S.A.?

In Parkland International, hah, Junkiedom U.S.A

Where Procaine proves the purest rock man groove and rat poison"

The volatile Molotov says

"Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh

Huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, straight to hell"

[Verse 4]

Can you cough it up, loud and strong?

The immigrants, they wanna sing all night long

It could be anywhere, most likely could be any frontier

Any hemisphere

No man's land

There ain't no asylum here

King Solomon, he never lived 'round here

[Outro]

Straight to hell, boy

Go straight to hell, boy

Go straight to hell, boys

Go straight to hell, boys

Oh papa-san, please take me home

Oh papa-san, everybody, they wanna go home now

[Verse]

If you ain't reggae for it, funk out!

No one knockin' at your door? Funk out!

Overpowered by funk? Funk out!

Combatative, repetitive

Don't life just funk you out?

Asinine, stupefying

Can the clone line dry you out?

Part of the swarming mass? Funk out!

Slugged by the new increase? Funk out!

Scared of the human bomb? Funk out!

Overpowered by funk? Funk out!

Buy dog food

Rogue elephants

Tarzan on a ticker tape

Breakfast cereals?

You know you can't escape

Overpowered by funk

Don't you love our Western ways?

Car crashed by funk

Don't you love our Western ways?

Benny Goodman, trial by jury

A phone box full of books

Is my name in there?

Dustcarts at sunrise

No one gets off the hooks

Car crashed

Food for the hungry millions? Funk out!

Home for the floating people? Funk out!

Over-drunk on power

Funk out!

The final game will be solitaire

Over-drunk on power, funk out

[Outro: Futura 2000]

This is a message from Futura

Don't prophesize the future

I liven up the culture

Because I'm deadly as a vulture

I paint on civilization

I have this realization

It's environmentally wack

So presenting my attack

And I'll brighten up your shack

I'm down by law

That's a fact

Just give me a wall

Any building, dull or tall

I spray clandestine night subway

I cover red purple on top of grey

An' hey, no slashing 'cause it ain't the way

The T.A. blew 40 mil they say

We thew down by night

An' they scrubbed it off by day

OK tourists

Picture frame

Tickets here for the graffiti train!

Funk power, over-and-out

[Verse 1]

Now the corporations stopped

(Stopped pushing fast food)

Been a multiple shooting

(Downtown at the bank)

Reluctantly the panic

(Begins to catch fire)

But it did not affect

(The steady sale of junk)

Oh, the state office looked

(It looked like Hollywood)

With make-up bleeding

(All over the cracks)

Whoa he blew his lines

(Facing the cameras)

He suffered the first

All live heart attack

[Chorus]

Oh, you've caught an even atom tan

[Verse 2]

The motor-cyanide

(Cyanide suicide)

He finally found

(The brick wall in his life)

Shining up his engine

(He dressed right up for it)

At the top of the speedo

(He crumpled the bike)

There's plenty people running

(Running for cover)

Hoping at best

(To hold off all the rest)

One last stand

(At the bunker fire)

Machine gun and pitchfork at breast

[Chorus]

Oh, you've caught an even atom tan

[Verse 3]

But it isn't so easy

(So easy for lovers)

Chained in love stained

(At the top of the tower)

The pink hearse is leaving

(At funeral speed)

Driving your heart

(Away with the flowers)

All night I waited

(I waited for a horseman)

And his ever faithful

(His Indian friend)

I'm not the only one

(Of the caped crusader fan club)

Watching the sky

For mankind's friend

[Outro]

Oh, you've caught an even atom tan

[Verse 1]

You know he heard the drums of war

When the past was a closing door

The drums beat into the jungle floor

The past was always a closing door

Closing door

[Verse 2]

Rain on the leaves and soldiers sing

You never never hear anything

They filled the sky with a tropical storm

You know he heard the drums of war

Each man knows what he's looking for

[Ginsberg]

Starved in metropolis

Hooked on necropolis

Addict of metropolis

Do the worm on the acropolis

Slamdance the cosmopolis

Enlighten the populace

[Verse 1: Strummer]

Hungry darkness of living

Who will thirst in the pit?

(Hooked in necropolis)

She spent a lifetime deciding

How to run from it

(Addicts of metropolis)

Once fate had a witness

And the years seemed like friends

(Girlfriends)

Now her child has a dream

But it begins like it ends

[Ginsberg]

Shot into eternity

Methadone kitty

Iron serenity

[Chorus]

Ghetto defendant

It is heroin pity

Not tear gas nor baton charge

That stops you taking the city

(Strung out committee)

Walled out of the city

Clubbed down from uptown

Sprayed pest from the nest

Run out to barrio town

(The guards are itchy)

Forced to watch at the feast

Then sweep up the night

Flipped pieces of coin

(Broken bottles)

Exchanged for birthright

[Chorus]

Ghetto defendant it is heroin pity

(Strung out committee)

Not tear gas nor baton charge

That stops you taking the city

(Not sitting pretty)

(Grafted in a jiffy)

Not tear gas nor baton charge

That stops you taking the city

The ghetto prince of gutter poets

Was bounced out of the room

(Jean Arthur Rimbaud)

By the bodyguards of greed

For disturbing the tomb

(1873)

His words like flamethrowers

(Paris commune)

Burnt the ghettos in their chests

His face was painted whiter

And he was laid to rest

(Died in Marseille)

Ghetto defendant it is heroin pity

(Buried in Charleville)

Not tear gas nor baton charge

That stops you taking the city

(Shut up in eternity)

[Ginsberg]

Guatemala

Honduras

Poland

100 years war

TV re-run invasion

Death squad Salvador

Afghanistan

Meditation

Old Chinese flu

Kick junk

What else

Can a poor worker do?

[Chorus]

[Ginsberg chanting]

[Verse]

The soldier boy for his soldier's pay, obeys

The sergeant at arms, whatever he says

The sergeant will for his sergeant's pay, obey

The captain's until his dying day

The captain will for his captain's pay, obey

The general order of battle play

The generals bow to the government

Obey the charge, you must not relent

What of the neighbours and the prophets in bars?

What are they saying in our public bazaars?

We are tired of the tune

You must not relent

[Verse 2]

At every stroke of the bell in the tower, there goes

Another boy from another side

The bulletins that steady come in say those

Familiar words at the top of the hour

The jamming city increases its hum, and those

Terrible words continue to come

Through brass music of government, hear those

Guns tattoo a roll on the drums

No one mentions the neighbouring war

No one knows what their fighting is for

We are tired of the tune

You must not relent

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[Outro]

The generals bow to

The government

We're tired of the tune

You must not relent

10 ContributorsDeath Is a Star LyricsAnd I was gripped by that deadly phantom

I followed him through hard jungles

As he stalked through the back lots

Strangling through the night shades

The thief of life

Moved onwards and outwards to love

In a one stop only motel

A storm bangs on the cheapest room

The phantom slips in to spill blood

Even on the sweetest honeymoon

The killer of love

Caught the last late Niagara bus

By chance or escaping from misery

By suddenness or in answer to pain

Smoking in the dark cinema

You could see the bad go down again

And the clouds are high in Spanish mountains

And a Ford roars through the night full of rain

The killer's blood flows

But he loads his guns again

Make a grown man cry like a girl

To see the guns dying at sunset

In vain lovers claimed

That they never had met

Smoking in the dark cinema

See the bad go down again