JOE STRUMMER â ITâS A ROCKINâ WORLD
It s not a very well known Strummer song, but I really like it. It is not a
Mescaleros song as it seems to get said a lot. The guys in this once off
collaboration actually include Flea and Tom Morello. I m sure no-one cares but I
thought I d throw it out there anyway. The future is unwritten.
Well it s a rockin world, make no mistake about
It s a shockin world, could be what s so great about it
It s a rockin world, there ain t nothing fake about it
Whoa whoa, now welcome to this Earth bro
Whoa whoa, we re tryin to find an answer
Whoa whoa, we got a surface module and a belly-dancer
On a sidewalk surf, a boy is tryin to show a girl what he is worth
Both arms in plaster, but he s still gonna
Go right up and ask her
Why is love magnetic is it, biological?
Why is it frenetic is it astrophysological?
It s an epidemic, there s nothing logically
Logical, logical, logical
Well it s a rockin world, make no mistake about
It s a shockin world, could be what s so great about it
It s a rockin world, there ain t nothing fake about it
DGDG
DGAD
Now why do babies cry? I asked the crow today
but all he did was fly And he took the cynic way
The laws of chaos, left us all in disarray
Now take the bumblebee, a lousy rotten bum
Not a shred of money just a lazy buzzin hum
He takes all our honey and it s the Garden of Eden that s got to pay
that s who...
Earth probe, back to base
Can t make no head or no tail of this place
Earth probe we re returning back to base, ase
Can we be notified when, love comes of age
Does a cell divide in the - in the initial phase
It s all codified in the - DNA stage
Well it s a rockin world, make no mistake about
It s a shockin world, could be what s so great about it
It s a rockin world, there ain t nothing fake about it
Finish with a couple of stabs on the
