Gates Of The West-The Clash

[00:00.10] [00:10.93]I would love to be the lucky one on Chill Avenue [00:15.58]Who could keep your heart warm when ice has turned it blue [00:18.60]But beggin' sleeping losers as they turn in for the night [00:21.62]I'm lookin' back for home and I can see the lights [00:24.81]I should be jumpin' shoutin' that I made it all this way [00:27.76]From Camden Town station on to 44th and 8th [00:30.82]Not many make it this far, many say we're great [00:34.09]But just like them we walk on, we can't escape our fate [00:37.38]Can't you hear the sighin' [00:43.48]Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue [00:46.42]Both say they needed somethin' new [00:48.72] [00:49.36]So I'm standing at the Gates of the West [00:52.54]I burn money at the lights of the sign [00:55.29]The city casts a shadow of the perfect crime [01:02.08]I'm standing at the Gates of the East [01:05.03]I take my pulse and the pulse of my friend [01:07.72]The city casts a shadow, will I see you again? [01:12.00] [01:15.23]The immigrants and remnants of all the glory years [01:18.52]Are clustered 'round the bar again for another round of beers [01:21.65]Little Richard's in the kitchen playin' spoons and plates [01:24.72]He's tellin' the waitress he's great [01:27.64]Ah say I know somewhere back 'n' forth in time [01:31.17]Out on the dust bowls, deep in the roulette mine [01:34.02]Or in a ghetto cellar only yesterday [01:37.21]There's a move into the future for the USA [01:42.69]I hear them cryin' [01:46.91]Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue [01:49.74]Both said they needed something new [01:51.16] [01:52.71]So I'm standing at the Gates of the West [01:55.81]I burn money at the lights of the sign [01:58.62]The city casts a shadow of the perfect crime [02:05.69]I'm standing at the Gates of the East [02:08.55]I take my pulse and the pulse of my friend [02:11.60]The city casts a shadow, will I see you again? [02:15.91] [02:31.26]Standing at the Gates of the West [02:36.91]In the shadow again [02:43.65]I'm standing at the Gates of the West [02:49.66]In the shadow again [02:56.33]I'm standing at the Gates of the West [03:02.30]In the shadow again [03:11.75]In the shadow again [03:15.81]