Clash The This Is England Lyrics

This Is England Lyrics

(strummer/rhodes)

 

 I hear a gang fire on a human factory farm

 Are they howling out or doing somebody harm

 On a catwalk jungle somebody grabbed my arm

 A voice spoke so cold it matched the weapon in her palm

 

 This is england

 This knife of sheffield steel

 This is england

 This is how we feel

 

 Time on his hands freezing in those clothes

 He won't go for the carrot

 They beat him by the pole

 Some sunny day confronted by his soul

 He's out at sea, too far off, he can't go home

 

 This is england

 What we're supposed to die for

 This is england

 And we're never gonna cry no more

 

 Black shadow of the vincent

 Falls on a triumph line

 I got my motorcycle jacket

 But i'm walking all the time

 South atlantic wind blows

 Ice from a dying creed

 I see no glory

 When will we be free

 

 This is england

 We can chain you to the rail

 This is england

 We can kill you in a jail

 

 The british boots go kick them

 Got 'em in the head

 Police ain't watchin'

 The newspapers been read

 Who cares to protest

 A (???) in the eye like a flare

 Out came the batons and

 The british warned themselves

 

 This is england

 The land of (il)legal dances

 This is england

 Land of a thousand stances

 This is england

 This knife of sheffield steel

 This is england

 This is how we feel

 This is england

 This is england