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We’d like to perform a summer narrative entitled ‘How Can I Understand The Flies?’
–Joe Strummer during their 1976 Roundhouse Concert
Written about the apartment The Clash frontman Joe Strummer was living in at the time, “How Can I Understand the Flies?” was an unreleased track by the iconic band....
[Verse 1]
In the summer
The flies buzzing round my head
Every night
I don't understand the flies buzzing 'round my head
[Chorus]
How can I go to sleep?
How can I go to sleep?
For the flies
For the flies
For the flies
For the flies
[Verse 2]
In the summer
The flies buzzing 'round my head
Every night
I don't understand the flies buzzing round my head
[Chorus]
How can I go to sleep?
How can I go to sleep?
For the flies
For the flies
For the flies
For the flies
[Outro]
For the flies
For the flies
For the flies
For the flies
For the flies
For the flies
How Can I Understand the Flies? (Live) was written by Mick Jones & Joe Strummer.
Nah, we dropped [“How Can I Understand the Flies?”] ‘cause there was no room for it. Like we dropped [“She’s Sitting at the Party”] and “Flies” which was about all those flies in the basement of Orsett Terrace [Joe Strummer’s apartment in 1976].
–Joe Strummer via Sounds magazine