Tony Adams - Joe Strummer, The Mescaleros

Tonight there was a power cut in the city of madness

And all conversations died in the burst of the solar flare

In the darkness an angel won the beauty pageant

Stroboscopic snowflakes fell from the stratosphere

And all the neon blew down funky Broadway

And shorted out the eastern shore

Only saxophones and beach trombones

Were left to shout out «we all need a little more»

I’m waiting for the rays of the morning sun

Somebody tell me clearly, has the new world begun?

Let all the wailing wail, let the drummer drum

We’re waiting for the rays of the morning sun

Hey, the morning sun

Whoa, the morning sun

Hey hey, the morning sun

Has anybody seen the morning sun?

I’m lost in a world beyond the lost city

I’m looking for a phone and I can’t find one

Got a Tony Bennett eight-track in the hotel, pity

The moon turned around and shot someone

I’m lost in a mack truck, Jack, in the city of words

Only dead men stomp on the brake pedals in the city of nerves

Sow me some reaps, Jack, I’m dead on the heap

Show me some glycerine, Mack, downhill is so steep

I’m waiting for the rays of the morning sun

Somebody tell me clearly, has the new world begun?

Let all the wailing wail, let the drummer drum

We’re waiting for the rays of the morning sun

Hey, the morning sun

Whoa, the morning sun

Hey hey, the morning sun

Has anybody seen the morning sun?

Late news breakin', this just in

Late news breakin', this just in

The whole city is a debris of broken heels and party hats

I’m standing on the corner that’s on a fold on the map

I lost my friends at the deportee station

I’ll take immigration into any nation

I’m waiting for the rays of the morning sun

Somebody tell me clearly, has the new world begun?

Let all the wailing wail, let the drummer drum

We’re waiting for the rays of the morning sun

Hey, the morning sun

Whoa, the morning sun

Hey hey, the morning sun

Has anybody seen the morning sun?