Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic 1980

Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic 1980

(Instrumental)

Banana republic
Septic isle
Screaming in the suffering sea
It sounds like crying (crying, crying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
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
Suffering in the screaming sea
It sounds like crying (crying, crying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
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
Suffering in the screaming sea
It sounds like crying (crying, crying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
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 crying (crying, crying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests

Banana republic
Septic isle
Suffer in the screaming sea
It sounds like crying (crying, crying)
Everywhere I go, oh yeah
Everywhere I see
The black and blue uniforms
Police and priests

Banana republic
Septic isle

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Pop
• 80s
• UK
• Boomtown
• Rats
• Banana
• Republic
• 1980
• Septic
• isle

[hyweltthomas]

@bkhorshidian Let's see; he wrote some of the best songs of the 70s and 80s, fronted a very popular band, set up the biggest concert the world has ever seen and raised millions for the starving. What a waste of a life.

What was your name again?

[TheBrinaleck]

the new irish anthem

[livelifealwaystoo]

@whirlpoolzend

♥

[whirlpoolzend]

Bob Geldof - Punks answer to John Travolta.

(Tugs at the heartstrings every time)

[TheEmilylander]

I was born in 65 .......... and you where the thing, Dont not be confident about the music , it was and s great.

Banana is my thing.

[sherlockhaimes]

@gummygobbler1 yep, wankers alright

[htfussman32]

Something tells me this is playback...

[samthebfg]

BA NANA REPUB A LIC!!!

[forthedependable]

Yeah i know geldof is a knob head, but he was on the ball with this song! this country still hasnt changed! Its a kip but its our kip!

[FINTZZZ]

I was a huge 'Rats fan until they brought this out. We Irish all gripe about Ireland but we love the place all the same. He(Geldof) bad mouthed our country to the auld enemy and to anyone else whom he thought would win him influence. Bet he's bessie mates with Wogan

[SuperBoogley]

absoloute great stuff from bob

better than the garbage people suffer listening to the radio these days

[beaschwii]

just saw them live, amazing!