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We Are the Clash Lyrics
Punk rockers, hip-hoppers
Brit poppers, show stoppers
Beboppers, hair droppers
Are you ready to sing?
Right wing, left wing
I want something
To see me through (???)
Bout what do you think
We ain't gonna be treated like trash
We got one thing
We are the Clash
What?
We are the Clash
It's like a patch
You can strike that match
With my guitar now
(???) last dance
I see them where they (???)
How they usually stay
Beating on a drum
Did they tell them 'take it in'
Got the (???)
Where the fat boy blew
We ain't gonna be treated like trash
We got one thing
We are the Clash
That's right
We are the Clash
It's like a patch
You can strike that match
Home fires burnin'
In motorcycle city
The rockin' gods will choose
If I'm worthy to live
The first (???) engine
(???) forty-six
And there's no more (???)
To imitate respect
We ain't gonna be treated like trash
We got one thing
We are the Clash
Don't take no shit
We are the Clash
Do ya hear me?
It's like a patch
You can strike that match
Brit poppers, show stoppers
Beboppers, hair droppers
Are you ready to sing?
I want something
To see me through (???)
Bout what do you think
We got one thing
We are the Clash
What?
We are the Clash
It's like a patch
You can strike that match
(???) last dance
I see them where they (???)
How they usually stay
Did they tell them 'take it in'
Got the (???)
Where the fat boy blew
We got one thing
We are the Clash
That's right
We are the Clash
It's like a patch
You can strike that match
In motorcycle city
The rockin' gods will choose
If I'm worthy to live
The first (???) engine
(???) forty-six
And there's no more (???)
To imitate respect
We got one thing
We are the Clash
Don't take no shit
We are the Clash
Do ya hear me?
It's like a patch
You can strike that match
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1 of the good songs on Cut the Crap
Indeed - I think it is the best song on the album and equal to their finest. Killer guitar solo - was that played by Nick Sheppard I wonder? It really catches a Clash flavour.
Indeed - I think it is the best song on the album and equal to their finest. Killer guitar solo - was that played by Nick Sheppard I wonder? It really catches a Clash flavour.
Every site in the world lists the last line of the chorus as "You can strike that match." Besides the fact that I have more faith in Joe Strummer than to believe he'd actually think that would be a good line for a song, if you listen to the song, that's OBVIOUSLY not what they're saying. It sounds almost like they're saying something like "You can seal the past" (which also isn't that great a line, but still). If you listen to the cover of this song by a band called Sparks, it still doesn't sound like "You can strike that match." That's DEFINATELY the wrong lyric.
I have my doubts about "It's like a patch" too, but I'm less certain about that.
I think "It's Like a Patch" is the right lyric cuz it fits with "seal the past" I just listened to it and you can distinctly hear them say a "ch" sound at the end of the line for patch
I believe the "missing" lyrics in the fourth verse are:
"Got the Nagasaki blues where the fat boy blew"
The name of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki ws Fatman.
The line: Right wing, left wing I want something To see me through (???) Bout what do you think
the missing words are..."the siege"
So it reads: "To see me through the siege"