Gangsterville - Joe Strummer

Nows the time your visions and your shreds

Turned out to be the cheap imported threads

The flag reeled out in a cotton kite

Flying miles above the wheatland in a single stripe

The revolution came the Revolution went

The chemical rain left the message on the tent

Wanted: one man to lead the crusade

Payment: a bullet on a big parade

Down in Gangsterville

Where any sane people already crawled under the house

Yeah Gangsterville — the television is always thinking about

Real people — especially when its hungry

Final decisions are made by the club

And inplemented by the shadow of a glove

And sitting in a coffee house reading words

We got popcorn salesmen for protection from the world

Went through extensive preparations

I learned all about the other nations

When freedom was defined as a word in a book

I learned if you’re plugged into something then baby you’re hooked

Into Gangsterville

I searched for a rose or some sweet juice of water

Gangsterville — people are giving

A black lady sobbed on a step — God bless the little born

On the other hand sitting next to the evil crew

They just got down from floor eighty — two

Been selling Indian reservations

Coming in looking for some jazz and a little libations

I like the same kind of beer

I gotta get right out of here

I’m going to New Orleans — gonna buy me a prayer

Gonna call somebody form a call box there

Hello this is Gangsterville

Bring your money to the shore

No automatic weapons on the jetty

Oh Gangsterville — electro shields on the phalanx

Club the Mayor in the streets — its chewable fecie

My kind, we are the worst kind

Got enough shrinks working on us

To defy paralysis Identify analysis

Just wanna hold my carburettor bible

Snapping to attention — eyes on the horizon

Keep your filter clean — wipe the oil from your dreams

Keep your hopes pinned on the Southern Cross

You got to believe in something or you feel a sense of loss

Down in Gangsterville

Pelicans dying strangling on a six can strap

Gangsterville shut off all power burn out all gasoline

Stop writting things on screens