The Clash - London Calling- This Is Radio Clash (Live US Festival 1983)

The Clash - London Calling -This Is Radio Clash
Live at US Festival - 1983

Joe Strummer , MIck Jones , Paul Simonon
and Pete Howard

London Calling :
London calling to the faraway towns
Now that war is declared-and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, all you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look at us
All that phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

[Chorus]
The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running and the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
London is drowning-and I live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, an' go it alone
London calling upon the zombies of death
Quit holding out-and draw another breath
London calling-and I don't wanna shout
But when we were talking-I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no highs
Except for that one with the yellowy eyes
The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running and the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
London is drowning-and I live by the river
I live by the river

This is radio clash
Interrupting all programmes
This is radio clash from pirate satellite
Orbiting your living room, cashing in the bill of rights
Cuban army surplus or refusing all third lights
This is radio clash on pirate satellite

This sound does not subscribe to the international plan
In the psycho shadow of the white right hand
Then that see ghettology as an urban Vietnam
Giving deadly exhibitions of murder by napalm

This is radio clash tearing up the seven veils
This is radio clash please save us, not the whales
This is radio clash underneath a mushroom cloud
This is radio clash, you don't need that funeral shroud (Why play?)

Forces have been looting, my humanity
Curfews have been curbing the end of liberty

Hands of law have sorted through my identity
But now this sound is brave and wants to be free, anyway to be free

This is radio clash on pirate satellite

This is not free Europe
Nor an armed force network
This is radio clash using audio ammunition
This is radio clash can we get that world to listen
This is radio clash using aural ammunition
This is radio clash can we get that world to listen?
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
(This is radio clash) Orbiting your living room cashing in the bill of rights
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
This is radio clash everybody hold on tight
(This is radio clash) A-riggy diggy dig dang, dang
(This is radio clash) Go back to urban 'Nam

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