Something About England Lyrics - Sandinista - The Clash

They say immigrants steal the hubcaps 

Of the respected gentlemen 

They say it would be wine an' roses 

If england were for englishmen again 

Well I saw a dirty overcoat 

At the foot of the pillar of the road 

Propped inside was an old man 

Whom time would not erode 

When the night was snapped by sirens 

Those blue lights circled fast 

The dancehall called for an' ambulance 

The bars all closed up fast 

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My silence gazing at the ceiling 

While roaming the single room 

I thought the old man could help me 

If he could explain the gloom 

You really think it's all new 

You really think about it too 

The old man scoffed as he spoke to me 

I'll tell you a thing or two 

I missed the fourteen-eighteen war 

But not the sorrow afterwards 

With my father dead and my mother ran off 

My brothers took the pay of hoods 

The twenties turned the north was dead 

The hunger strike came marching south 

At the garden party not a word was said 

The ladies lifted cake to their mouths 

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The next war began and my ship sailed 

With battle orders writ in bed 

In five long years of bullets and shells 

We left tem million dead 

The few returned to old piccadily 

We limped around leicster square 

The world was busy rebuilding itself 

The architects could not care 

But how could we know when I was young 

All the canges that were to come? 

All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield 

And now the terror of the scientific sun 

There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs 

They taught you how to touch your cap 

But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace 

England never closed this gap 

So leave me now the moon is up 

But remember all the tales I tell 

The memories that you have dredged up 

Are on letters forwarded from hell 

The streets were by now deserted 

The gangs had trudged off home 

The lights clicked off in the bedsits 

An' old england was all alone