If Music Could Talk by The Clash
If Music Could Talk by The Clash

If Music Could Talk

The Clash * Track #17 On Sandinista!

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If Music Could Talk by The Clash

Release Date
Fri Dec 12 1980
Performed by
The Clash
Produced by
Mikey Dread & The Clash
Writed by
Topper Headon & Mick Jones & Paul Simonon & Joe Strummer & Mikey Dread
About

“If Music Could Talk” is another of The Clash’s excursions into reggae music. The song is distinguished by two simultaneous Joe Strummer vocals, one in each stereo channel, and each with their own set of stream-of-conscious lyrics.

An alternative version of the song with co-writer and frequent Clas...

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If Music Could Talk Lyrics

[Left Channel]
Make sure!
Takin' cover in the bunker tonight
Waitin' for Bo Diddley's headlights

If music could talk

I feel alright
Gotta Fender Stratosphere
I can do anything tonight
It's in neon lights an' global rights
Frank? He's on the phone

There ain't no German girl outside
But who cares when it's warm inside?
With music
Special mystery of music tragically
Exchanging slaves for majesties
Modern waves of tragedy
Packing a two pence colt pair of shoots
A shiny grey mexican suit
The blue eyed traffic can sashay by
'Cos tonight the sailor boys have hit Shanghai
The kick-out traffic goes creaking by
I smash my glass and shout shanghi
My drummer friend comes shooting by
He said Errol Flynn will never die
Oh no! Who am I to question why?

And are you lonesome tonight
And do ya need a country cowboy
Who's just thin and tight in those
Brrrr bus depot jeans
With a squirt resistant stud stud

Hey stoner
Get over there in the spliffbunker one
Because London Bridge was sold somehow
But it was too old anyhow
When Uncle Sam has broken down
We'll make him down in old Japan
Say yeah

Well there ain't no better band
Than Joe Ely and his Texas Men
Where the wind blows
I ain't seen none like that scenery
You can see from a bus if you pay the price

Wave my arms around
Flag one of those taxi's maybe
I saw a girl somewhere somehow
Forever sticks in my mind somehow
I've just got three lines
And a pair of two's
Like a lucky roll of dice that you
You cast

[Right Channel]
If music could talk!
Which means
Whatever your mind can bring
Like the apple fell off the tree
Pah! Fell right on his head
Yeah many years ago

There was a man who said
I am a shaman
A voodoo shaman
Got in trouble so he's going out
Mixing up and Haiti! Oh!
And the crickets
Buddy Holly said it was
Brrr Brrr yiii!

If music could talk you know

I feel kinda lonely
Standing out on the floor
Of Electric Ladyland...
Cos this is a good question Samson
Are you partly Arabic?

Chi man! Whatcho all about

I don't want to I can't hope to
Say it all in one go
Occasionally once or twice
A day I feel alive enough to say
Let's hear what the drummerman's
Got to say about
He said is it Errol Flynn's birthday or not?
Sept 12 until October
If they pack 2 piece
Colt pair of shoots
We got the shiny grey Mexican suits

I'm just wasting a great big
Corporation and the entire fund
The girders of Wall Street
And the temples of money
And the high priests
Of the expense account
And I'm wasting the whole thing

I come down in Yamaha-ha
They make the best pianos

It's time you stepped up

If Music Could Talk Q&A

Who wrote If Music Could Talk's ?

If Music Could Talk was written by Topper Headon & Mick Jones & Paul Simonon & Joe Strummer & Mikey Dread.

Who produced If Music Could Talk's ?

If Music Could Talk was produced by Mikey Dread & The Clash.

When did The Clash release If Music Could Talk?

The Clash released If Music Could Talk on Fri Dec 12 1980.

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