Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone Lyrics - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists

it's times like these when a neck looks for a knife, 

a wrist for a razor, a heart is longing for bullets. 

tension is high under sea and over sky. 

pressure drop, people are acting foolish. 

ooh - but it's easy to see! 

ooh - we could dance and be free. 

ooh - to that 2-tone beat! 

but it looks like it's gone... 

gangsters and clowns with a stereotyped sound 

it's coming like a ghosst town - someone always knew it. 

hatred and shame, a racialist game 

cycles of blame - someone sang me through it. 

who? well it's easy to see. 

ooh - we could dance to be free. 

ooh - to that 2-tone beat! 

but it looks like it's gone... 

i asked jerry, he told terry, terry sang a song just for me, 

lynvall gave a message to me, 

rhoda screamed and then she asked me, 

"where have all the rude boys gone?"