| The Pogues – Dirty Old Town Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| @[streetcore:53688] MacColl was a Communist Party member and the ‘good sharp axe’ is a metaphor for the Party smashing the capitalist system which created the dirty old town. The song is affectionate about Salford, but it doesn’t romanticise life there at all: the writer knows it is hard, and believes that it must be destroyed, and that he knows how to do so. | |
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