Concrete Jungle

No comments for Concrete Jungle? Fine. Let's change that. It was written by Roddy Radiation (Guitars). The song's fairly self explanitory I've always thought BUT it's about the air of menance that existed in British Cities circa the late 1970s and early 1980s (It's still there, but some would argue less so) and the dangers of going out if you were Black or, in Roddy's case, Alternative.

The line, incorrect here, I'm pretty sure should be 'I get chased by the National Front'. The National Front, predocessors to the BNP, were a politcal party who's politics lied somewhere between anit-immigration and nazi, they were disturbingly strong in the late 1980s (see Tom Robinson Band's 'Winter of '79' or The Clash's 'English Civil War' for two examples off the top of my head).

To add another point about the reference to the National Front, they were notorious for effectively hijacking skinhead culture which formed a significant part of the initial fanbase for the 2Tone/British ska scene that The Specials were a part of. A number of the bands on the 2Tone label were subsequently "claimed" by the NF - which is what I'm guessing is referenced with "I won't fight for a cause / I don't want to change the law / Leave me alone, just leave me alone / I want to get out on my own" since the NF regularly claimed to be fighting for the (exclusively white English) working/lower middle class and unemployed, both of which The Specials stood by as well; I've always seen those lines as a reference to the band attempting to distance themselves from the NF members/sympathisers who claimed to be their fans. Since The Specials were a racially-diverse group, quite a few of their songs contain fairly derogatory references to the NF (and similar intolerant groups/parties) and called out the danger they presented, though this was the only one that I can think of that made the danger personal rather than political.