Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic 1980

Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic 1980

Banana Republic
Septic Isle
Screaming in the Suffering sea
It sounds like crying
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests

And I wonder do you wonder
While you're sleeping with your whore
That sharing beds with history
Is like a-licking running sores
Forty shades of green yeah
Sixty shades of red
Heroes going cheap these days
Price; a bullet in the head

Banana Republic
Septic Isle
Suffer in the Screaming sea
It sounds like dying
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests

Take your hand and lead you
Up a garden path
Let me stand aside here
And watch you pass
Striking up a soldier's song
I know that tune
It begs too many questions
And answers to,

Banana Republic
Septic Isle
Suffer in the Screaming sea
It sounds like dying
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests

The purple and the pinstripe
Mutely shake their heads
A silense shrieking volumes
A violence worse than the condemn
Stab you in the back yeah
Laughing in your face
Glad to see the place again
It's a pitty nothing's changed

Banana Republic
Septic Isle
Suffer in the Screaming sea
It sounds like dying
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests

Banana Republic
Septic Isle
Suffer in the Screaming sea
It sounds like dying
Everywhere I go
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests

Banana Republic
Septic Isle

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Pop
• New
• wave
• 80s
• UK
• Boomtown
• Rats
• Bob
• Geldorf
• Banana
• Republic
• 1980

[simon4tk]

@kablamman2007 Like most real bands in the 80's that liked or preferred to sing live they would always Badly mime their songs just to piss off the producers of Top of the pops who would only let them mime the songs... kinda like a Britney Spears of today except she really is Shit.

[MrFreako2010]

@simon4tk I guessed this was a big joke. Saw them on this tour, in a cinema in Canada, and they performed every song perfectly. At one point, security said that, being a cinema, everyone had to sit down. In solidarity, the Rats sat on chairs and stools onstage for one song - except Bob, who was perched atop a ladder! Great memory.

[eceabat]

German's legendary music show: Musikladen. It was a famous as Top of the Pops used to be in those days. They used to put song and artist names in the middle of the song which was so unique.

[caronlesleyelliker]

love it!!!

[TheKamikazeMAR]

White Ghana boy he looks

[Fugliegeo]

Always loved this, makes me so horizontal - who cares about the spelling.

[kablamman2007]

Was it SUPPOSED to be obvious that they aren't really singing, or is this a different video?