The Clash
The Clash
The Clash
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The 48 hours refers to that period of time between Friday evening to Sunday evening.
No doubt the inspiration for Loverboy’s “Everybody’s Working For the Weekend”, this is The Clash’s paean to the end of the work week, when one can simply rock out with one’s cock out. Or something like that. “Lond...
[Verse 1]
Friday or Saturday, what does that mean?
Short space of time and needs a heavy scene
Monday is comin' like a jail on wheels
[Chorus]
Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight
Forty-eight hours needs a-forty-eight
Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight
Thrills, forty-eight thrills
[Verse 2]
So tell me, and I'll take the tube
You know a girl, yeah, well, she's bound to be rude
Can't a-get a-nothin' at the places I've been
[Chorus]
Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight
Forty-eight hours needs a-forty-eight
Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight
Thrills, thrills
[Verse 3]
I've combed this town from top to bottom
Try to get around but my legs are broken
Every time I miss it 'cause I ain't got a ticket
[Chorus]
Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight
Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight
Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight
Thrills, forty-eight thrills
Cheap thrills
And he got thrills
Kickin' for kicks
[Chorus]
Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight
Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight
Forty-eight hours needs forty-eight
Thrills
48 Hours was written by Mick Jones & Joe Strummer.
48 Hours was produced by Mickey Foote.