The Clash - Kingston Advice

Sandinista! / 1980-12-12 1. Broadway 2. Career Opportunities 3. Charlie Don't Surf 4. Corner Soul 5. Hitsville U.K. 6. If Music Could Talk 7. Ivan Meets G.I. Joe 8. Junco Partner 9. Junkie Slip 10. Kingston Advice 11. Let's Go Crazy 12. Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice) 13. Living In Fame 14. Look Here 15. Lose This Skin 16. Mensforth Hill 17. Midnight Log 18. One More Dub 19. One More Time 20. Police On My Back 21. Rebel Waltz 22. Shepherds Delight 23. Silicone On Sapphire 24. Somebody Got Murdered 25. Something About England 26. The Call Up 27. The Crooked Beat 28. The Equaliser 29. The Leader 30. The Magnificent Seven 31. The Sound Of The Sinners 32. The Street Parade 33. Up In Heaven (Not Only Here) 34. Version City 35. Version Pardner 36. Washington Bullets

Kingston Advice

In these days you can get no rice
No razor blades but you can get knife
In these days see the people run
They have no food but the boy have gun
In these days they don't throw the stone
Nor use the voice they use the gun alone
In these days to be an oddity
Be hunted down like a scarcity

In these days don't beg for life
Wanna take Kingston advice?
Oh please don't beg for your life

In these days the beat is militant
Must be a clash there's no alternative
In these days nations are militant
We have slavery under government
In these days in the firmament
I look for signs that are permanent

In these days with no love to give
The world will turn with no one left to live

In these days I don't know what to do
The more I see the more I'm destitute
In these days I don't know what to sing
The more I know the less my tune can swing

In these days you can get no rice
No razor blades but you can get knife
In these days see the people run
They have no food but the boy have gun