Uploaded by ScreamDream3000 on Jul 25, 2009
Title: The Call Up (track 04)
Artist: The Clash
Album: Sandinista! (CD2)
Year: 1980
Label: Epic, originally CBS
Writer(s): The Clash
Lyrics:
It's up to you not to heed the call-up
'N' you must not act the way you were brought up
Who knows the reasons why you have grown up
Who knows the plans or why they were drawn up
It's up to you not to heed the call-up
I don't wanna die!
It's up to you to hear the call-up
I don't wanna kill
For he who will die is he who will kill
Maybe I wanna see the wheatfields
Over Kiev and down to the sea
All the young people down the ages
They gladly marched off to die
Proud city fathers used to watch them
Tears in their eyes
There is a rose that I want to live for
Although, God knows, I may not have met her
There is a dance an' I should be with her
There is a town unlike any other
It's up to you not to hear the call-up
'N' you must not act the way you were brought up
Who give you work an' why should you do it?
At fifty five minutes past eleven
There is a rose...
Yeah
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my old band was named the call up
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This tune packed a powerful message back in '81 when Reagan and his chums were itching to get involved in central America, Nicaragua in particular, It didn't stop their meddling, but maybe it sowed a seed of doubt in their minds about how people would react if they re-introduced the draft. It was only 10 years after Vietnam.
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@theclash3015 War has been going on since the beginning of time, we should be asking how did it ever start.
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great bass line
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God what a wonderful fuking Group...still standing the test of time
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@IdioticPlatypus I guess I stand corrected.
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@MrLimborace uhhh, no. it actually means "5 minutes to midnight", or the perception that the world was on the brink of nuclear war. the bomb on hiroshima dropped at 8:15 a.m.
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Vietnam,Chile,Nikaragua,Guatem
ala,Lebanon,Kuvait,Bosnia,Croa tia,Serbia/Kosovo,Iraq,Libia,E gypt,Siria.Oh my God,where it is End? -
The Clash is the only rock n' roll band you need :-). I'm not just kidding, there's something for everyone in here
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Great tune from a great album. The Clash definitely rules. Greetings from france.
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Exilemainstreet 1 year ago 19
@LanceHelmut Yo dude. 55 myself. In 1978 "Rolling Stone Magazine" labelled them "The Only Band That Matters". Still true in my opinion...
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