The Clash - The Guns of Brixton (Live at Shea Stadium) lyrics

"yeah, ask your neighbor
What that's about"

When they kick at your front door
How you gonna go?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of the gun

When the law brace in how you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row

You can crush us you can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton!

Money feels good
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, as in hell



You can crush us you can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton! You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton!

You see, he feels like Ivan
Born under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin'
At the end of The Harder They Come

You can crush us you can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton!

You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun

You can crush us you can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton you can crush us
You can bruise us and even shoot us
But oh, the guns of Brixton!


"yeah if you don't know what's a if
You don't know what's going on
Just ask the person standing next to
You as we go into, tommy Gun"