Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone lyrics

Song information

Artist: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Album: Hearts Of Oak

Lyrics

It's times like these when a neck looks for a knife
A wrist for a razor, a heart is longing for bullets
Tension is high under sea and over sky
Pressure drop, people are acting foolish
Ooh - but it's easy to see!
Ooh - we could dance and be free
Ooh - to that 2-tone beat!
But it looks like it's gone..
Gangsters and clowns with a stereotyped sound
It's coming like a ghosst town - someone always knew it
Hatred and shame, a racialist game
Cycles of blame - someone sang me through it
Who? well it's easy to see
Ooh - we could dance to be free
Ooh - to that 2-tone beat!
But it looks like it's gone..
I asked jerry, he told terry, terry sang a song just for me
Lynvall gave a message to me
Rhoda screamed and then she asked me
"Where have all the rude boys gone?"