Death Is a Star by The Clash
Death Is a Star by The Clash

Death Is a Star

The Clash * Track #12 On Combat Rock

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Death Is a Star by The Clash

Release Date
Fri May 14 1982
Performed by
The Clash
Produced by
The Clash
Writed by
Topper Headon & Mick Jones & Paul Simonon & Joe Strummer
About

Singer Joe Strummer wrote the song and explained in an interview with Roz Reines in 1982 that the song is about violence in films and the public’s desire to see “executions” – be that literally or in terms of a career. “It’s about the way we all queue up at the cinema to see someone get killed. Thes...

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Death Is a Star Lyrics

And I was gripped by that deadly phantom
I followed him through hard jungles
As he stalked through the back lots
Strangling through the night shades

The thief of life
Moved onwards and outwards to love

In a one stop only motel
A storm bangs on the cheapest room
The phantom slips in to spill blood
Even on the sweetest honeymoon

The killer of love
Caught the last late Niagara bus

By chance or escaping from misery
By suddenness or in answer to pain
Smoking in the dark cinema
You could see the bad go down again

And the clouds are high in Spanish mountains
And a Ford roars through the night full of rain

The killer's blood flows
But he loads his guns again

Make a grown man cry like a girl
To see the guns dying at sunset

In vain lovers claimed
That they never had met

Smoking in the dark cinema
See the bad go down again

Death Is a Star Q&A

Who wrote Death Is a Star's ?

Death Is a Star was written by Topper Headon & Mick Jones & Paul Simonon & Joe Strummer.

Who produced Death Is a Star's ?

Death Is a Star was produced by The Clash.

When did The Clash release Death Is a Star?

The Clash released Death Is a Star on Fri May 14 1982.

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