July 13th 1985 (the Live Aid Song) Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

July 13th 1985 was the day we watched Live Aid 

The Global Jukebox came alive 

We fed the world that day 

We fed the world that day 

It was a day for a party we made a lot of food and we ate it sure as hell 

Vegetarian salads, they had no meat, there was leftovers as well 

Everybody laughed when I said 

Thinking of the people either dying or dead 

Let's pick up the leftovers, send them to the starving children in Ethiopia 

My mother used to say that 

Sure I was pleased to give money, cause it was not a political cause 

I just remember the smiling faces, the music and the applause 

I spent 30 quid on coke 

I smoked a little too much dope 

I was wiped out from 5 til 7, I missed Spandau Ballet and U2 

July 13th 1985 was the day we watched Live Aid 

The Global Jukebox came alive 

We fed the world that day 

We fed the world that day 

The music was fucking brilliant and that Madonna she sure can move 

By the time Paul McCartney's microphone had failed yeah, we are all well into the Live Aid groove 

Paul McCartney, he sang... 

Which must have been a bit of an irony 

Cos if you 'Let it Be' nothing will ever improve 

But it was one of the first times I ever heard one of the real Beatles sing a real Beatles' song live on television, I really wished Julian Lennon had turned up instead of his recently dead father, I was really moved 

July 13th 1985 was the day we watched Live Aid 

The Global Jukebox came alive 

We fed the world that day 

We fed the world that day 

Well the powerful voice of pop music, solve the problems, feed the world 

So what if there weren't any blacks involved there was Everything but the Girl 

Bob Geldof has no ego that man should get the Nobel Prize 

By the time he sang the solo on Feed the World 

I thought he should be canonized 

I felt guilty about the starving but I felt good to be alive 

And I must admit I shed a tear or two in the very moving video for that great Cars song Drive 

Saint Bob made me feel like shit 

So I got out an envelope, opened it 

Put in a very crisp ten pound note 

It was the same one I used earlier to snort my coke 

And that made me feel good inside 

Sending the money, not snorting the coke 

July 13th 1985 was the day we watched Live Aid 

The Global Jukebox came alive 

We fed the world that day 

We fed the world that day