Concrete Jungle Lyrics

Lyric discussion by dwitefry 

Cover art for Concrete Jungle lyrics by Specials, The

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).