“Indicação” nº 4 do dia:

I’m Not Down

If it’s true that a rich man leads a sad life
N’ that’s what they from day to day
Then what do all the poor do with their lives?
Have nothing to say on judgment day?

I’ve been beat up, I’ve been thrown
Out but I’m not down, I’m not down
I’ve been shown up, but I’ve grown up
And I’m not down, I’m not down

On my own I faced a gang of jeering in strange streets
When my nerves were pumping and I
Fought my fear in, I did not run
I was not done

And I have lived that kind of day
When one of your sorrows will go away
It goes down and down and hit the floor
Down and down and down some more
Depression
But I now there’ll be some way
When I can swing everything back my way
Like skyscrapers rising up
Floor by floor, I’m not giving up

So you rock around and think that
You’re the toughest
In the world, the whole wide world
But you’re streets away from where
It gets the roughest
You ain’t been there

“Indicação” nº 13 do dia:

Hate and War

Hate and war – the only things we got today

An’ if I close my eyes
They will not go away
You have to deal with it
It is the currency

Hate…hate…hate…

The hate of a nation
A million miles from home
An’ get war from the junkies
Who don’t like my form

I’m gonna stay in the city
Even when the house fall down
I don’t dream of a holiday
When hate an’ war come around

Hate and war…

I have the will to survive
I cheat if I can’t win
If someone locks me out
I kick my back in

An’ if I get aggression
I give it to them two time back
Every day it’s just the same
With hate an’ war on my back

Hate and war – I hate all the English
Hate and war – they’re just as bad as wops
Hate and war – I hate all the politeness
Hate and war – I hate all the cops

I wanna walk down any street
Looking like a creep
I don’t care if I get beat up
By any Kebab Greek

“Indicação” nº 18 do dia:

Groovy Times

THE HIGH STREET SHOPS ARE BOARDED UP
AN’ THE TERRACE IT IS FENCED IN
SEE-THROUGH SHIELDS ARE WALLED ACROSS
THE WAY THAT YOU CAME IN
BUT THERE’S NO NEED TO GET EXCITED

AS THE LORRIES BRING THE BACON IN
‘COS THE HOUSEWIVES ARE ALL SINGING
GROOVY TIMES ARE HERE AGAIN

THEY DISCOVERED ONE BLACK SATURDAY
THAT MOBS DON’T MARCH THEY RUN
SO YOU CAN EXCUSE THE NERVOUS TRIGGERMAN
JUST THIS ONCE FOR JUMPING THE GUN
AS THEY WERE PICKING UP THE DEAD
OUT OF THE BROKEN GLASS
YES IT’S NUMBER ONE, THE RADIO SAID
GROOVY TIMES HAVE COME TO PASS!

GROOVY TIMES GROOVY TIMES GROOVY TIMES

THE INTAKE IS ON THE UPTAKE
THE ACCELERATION’S PRETTY GRIM
I CAN REMEMBER HIS FIRST APPEARANCE
NOW LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENED TO HIM
SO THEY PUT HIM IN A DOG SUIT
LIKE FROM 1964
THE KING OF EARLY EVENING TV
GROOVY TIMES FOREVER MORE

GROOVY TIMES

“Indicação” nº 5 do dia:

Gates of the West

 would love to be the lucky one on chill
avenue
Who could keep your heart warm when ice has turned it blue
But with the beggin’ sleeping losers as they turn in for the night
I’m looking back for home and I can see the lights

I should be jumpin’ shoutin’ that I made it all this way
From Camden town station to 44th and 8th
Not many make it this far and many say we’re great
But just like them we walk on an’ we can’t escape our fate
Can’t you hear the sighing
Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue
Both say they needed something new

So I’m standing at the gates of the west
I burn money at the lights of the sign
The city casts a shadow of the perfect crime
I’m standing at the gates of the east
I take my pulse and the pulse of my friend
The city casts a shadow, will I see you again?

The immigrants an’ remnants of all the glory years
Are clustered around the bar again for another round of beers
Little Richard’s in the kitchen playing spoons and plates
He’s telling the waitress he’s great

Ah say i know somewhere back’n’forth in time
Out on the dustbowls, deep in the roulette mine
Or in a ghetto cellar only yesterday
There’s a move into the future for the USA.

I hear them crying
Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue
Both said they needed something new

Standing at the gates of the west
In the shadow again
I’m standing at the gates of the west
In the shadow again

“Indicação” nº 2 do dia:

Four Horsemen

Well they were given the grapes that go ripe in
the sun
That loosen the screws at the back of the tongue
But they told no one where they had begun-four horsemen

They were given al lthe foods of vanity
And all the instant promises of immortality
Buyt they bit the dust screamin’ insanity!-four horsemen

One was over the edge, one was over the cliff
One was lickin’ em dry with a bloody great spliff
When they picked up the hiker he didn’t want the lift
From the horsemen

But you!
You’re not searching, are you now?
You’re not looking anyhow
You’re never gonna ride that lonely mile
Or put yourself up on trial
Oh, you told me how your life was so bad
An’ I agree that it does seem sad
But that’s the price that you gotta pay
If you’re lazing all around all day
Four horsement coming right through
Four horsemen and they’re pissing by you
They make you look like you’re wearing a truss
Four hosemen and it’s gonna be us

Well they gave useverything for bending the mind
ANd we cleaned out their pockets and we drank ‘em blind
IT’s a long way to the finish so don’t get left behind
By those horsemen

And they gave us the grapes that went ripe in the sun
That loosen the scews at the back of the tongue
But we still told nothing ‘bout what was to come
Four horsemen