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The Crooked Beat Lyrics

Artist: The Clash
Album: Sandinista!

Start the car lets make a midnight run
Across the river to South London
To dance to the latest hi-fi sound
Of bass, guitar and drum
Seeking out a rhythm that can take the pressure off
Stepping in and out of that crooked crooked beat

Take a piece of cloth, a coin for thirst
For the sweat will start to run
With a cymbal splash, a word of truth
And a rocking bass and drum
Seeking out a rhythm that can take the pressure on
Stepping in and out of that crooked crooked beat

So one by one they come on down
From the tower blocks of my home town
Stepping with the rhythm of the rockers beat
Drowning out the pressure of the crooked beat
Seeking out a rhythm that can take the tension on
Stepping in and out of that crooked crooked beat

It has crooked past this crooked street
Where cars patrol this crooked beat
Badges flsh and sirens wail
They'll be taking one and all to jail

Prance! Prance! You want a law to dance?

Comments/Interpretations

by olivier on 3/26/2009 2:03am
i ove this song......good rytham isnt it!!from south of france my home town....

by Ahmed on 12/21/2010 10:24am
On the 5th line of the song there is a mistake, it"s pressure but passion, and for the other 11th line too, it's tension, not pressure.
My The Clash for ever!

by Jack on 5/17/2014 2:27pm
Bass on this song is fucking insane