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The Magnificent Seven Lyrics - The Clash
Soundtrack: Beautiful Game
The Magnificent Seven Lyrics
The Magnificent Seven Song Lyrics
Don't you ever stop
Long enough to start
Take your car out of that gear
Don't you ever stop
Long enough to start
Get your car out of that gear
Ring! Ring! It's 7:00 A.M.!
Move y'self to go again
Cold water in the face
Brings you back to this awful place
Knuckle merchants and you bankers, too
Must get up an' learn those rules
Weather man and the crazy chief
One says sun and one says sleet
A.M., the F.M. the P.M. too
Churning out that boogaloo
Gets you up and gets you out
But how long can you keep it up?
Gimme Honda, Gimme Sony
So cheap and real phony
Hong Kong dollars and Indian cents
English pounds and Eskimo pence
You lot! What?
Don't stop! Give it all you got!
You lot! What?
Don't stop! Yeah!
Working for a rise, better my station
Take my baby to sophistication
She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice
Better work hard - I seen the price
Never mind that it's time for the bus
We got to work - an' you're one of us
Clocks go slow in a place of work
Minutes drag and the hours jerk
"When can I tell 'em wot I do?
In a second, maaan...oright Chuck!"
Wave bub-bub-bub-bye to the boss
It's our profit, it's his loss
But anyway lunch bells ring
Take one hour and do your thanng!
Cheeesboiger!
What do we have for entertainment?
Cops kickin' Gypsies on the pavement
Now the news - snap to attention!
The lunar landing of the dentist convention
Italian mobster shoots a lobster
Seafood restaurant gets out of hand
A car in the fridge
Or a fridge in the car?
Like cowboys do - in T.V. land
You lot! What? Don't stop. Huh?
So get back to work an' sweat some more
The sun will sink an' we'll get out the door
It's no good for man to work in cages
Hits the town, he drinks his wages
You're frettin', you're sweatin'
But did you notice you ain't gettin'?
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To take your car outta that gear
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To get your car outta that gear
Karlo Marx and Fredrich Engels
Came to the checkout at the 7-11
Marx was skint - but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence
What have we got? Yeh-o, magnificence!!
Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
Went to the park to check on the game
But they was murdered by the other team
Who went on to win 50-nil
You can be true, you can be false
You be given the same reward
Socrates and Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way - through the kitchen
Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who's more famous to the billion millions?
News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie
Oooohh...bub-bye
Magnificence!!
f**kING LONG, INNIT?
April, 15th 2024
Song Facts:
- Genre: Punk Rock, Rap
- Featured Artists: None
- Lyricists: The Clash
- Composers: The Clash
- Soundtrack: Featured in the soundtrack of "Beautiful Game."
Annotations and Meaning:
The first brick in the development of this track was The Clash's "The Magnificent Seven," really uniting for the first time punk rock and rap properly, representative of the innovation and the musical span of the band. If one thinks about it, the lyrics comment with satire on both how modern working life has become something insipid and on how consumer culture has turned into a kind of absurd devotion to banality—a member of a Western hedonistic practice.
The song starts with the recurring lines "Don't you ever stop long enough to start? Take your car out of that gear," meaning the constant everyday life hurry, from which you never have a second to make a fresh start. This sets the stage for a critique of modern life’s relentless pace.
He shows the kind of daily routine the guy was going through with realistic, vivid, and sometimes humorous illustration that goes along with the development of the song: "Ring! Ring! It’s 7:00 A.M.! Move y'self to go again". The reference to cold water, to the knuckle merchant and the bankers, along with the mention of the contrasting weather reports, exposes a world of contradictions with the humdrum of work cycles through the day.
The song's chorus, "You lot! What? Don't stop! Give it all you got!" becomes almost like a call to action and at the same time almost sarcastic to all those motivational slogans, driving in the narrative of never-ending toil without something meaningful to do.
The lyrics thereby juxtapose cultural and, from Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Mahatma Gandhi, with trivial, at times even surreally absurd news items like "Italian mobster shoots a lobster." This contrast thus lays bare the critique held within the song of how media, and culture more generally, on the one hand, celebrate the trivial while shunning the profound.
The line "hits the town, he drinks his wages" tries to show the hard labor of the worker, who just earns money for the sake of spending it on his leisure. This further underpins the vicious cycle of work and consumption with no real escape.
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