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Artist: Joe Strummer
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London Is Burning (part. The Mescaleros)
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London Is Burning (part. The Mescaleros)
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London is burning
Don’t tell the Queen
Somebody’s charged the speed garage
And then burned down Bethnal Green
Piccadilly’s Churming like a Reggae Beat
Soon you’re gonna be running down
Those burning streets come on
A century that’s hardly on it’s feet
The Late News breaks early
Does tae a Sunrise from the West or from the East?
London is burning
It takes every day to be surving in the city
There’s sirens rising from the east
There’s a distance blues dancing on a crowded street
The temperature are rising
Can you feel the heat?
Soon you’re gonna be running down
Those burning streets come on
Were waiting for your flag to be unfurled
The Late News breaks early
How should life be lived around the world
London is burning
It takes everyday to survinvin’in the city
Ready to face
A dawn with no pity
Come on
YE-AH
Come on
London is burnin’
London is burnin’
Can I get a witness?
Were there’s smoke there’s heat
There’s a love triangle on a two-way street
London is burning and underneath your feet
Soon you’re gonna be runnin’down those burning streets
Come on
Does the universal clock
Have a beat?
And The Late News breaks early
Did you have buy that bar on Luck street
London is burning
It takes everyday to survinvin’in the city
Ready to face
A dawn with no pity
Come on
YE-AH
Come on
London is burning
London is burning
Too many guns in this damn town
At the supermarket, you gotta duck down
Baby flake gackeps the merry go round
London is burning
Too many guns in this damn town
Baby flake jackets on the merry go round
London is burning
Too many guns in this damn town
London is burning
Too many guns in this damn town
Baby flake jackets on the merry go round
London is burning
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