The Clash - Long Time Jerk lyrics

Gonna scrape the trouble off my boots
As they were dancing in the evening
And the light shone through the trees
This girl my eye was following
Asked the band to play her a beat
Singin' she'd do that long time jerk
She hit me where it hurts oh your heart
Now my heart will burst oh no

Ah, but it took me back to wonderland
I witnessed long ago
Babblin' words of preachers
Saying "Don't bury me no more" oh

And I've forgotten how to worry
And I don't know how to run
Against the odds I realize
This struggle could be won we dance

Long time jerk she did it to me first
Oh, my heart with that long time jerk


Say, do that long time jerk

Bring on those tapes from the past
You look better in a mirror
Feel that long time jerkin'
Between the taker and the giver feel that

Long time jerk she did it to me first
Oh, my heart with that long time jerk
Say, do that long time jerk

I've forgotten how to worry
And I don't know how to run
Against the odds I realize
This struggle could be fun!
Oh, through lanes and streets and houses
And reversing rush of time
She made me reinvent the world
Before inventing time (Before invented time)

Long time jerk she did it to me first
Oh, my heart with that long time jerk
Say, do that long time jerk

Long, long, long, long, long long time
Long time jerk