Lyrics to Songs for CB Radio

X-RAY STYLE

(Joe Strummer)

I see a million walk the city mile
the tickertape kings and the juveniles
will anybody tell me which way to go
will anybody come back on a CB radio

I'm counting the stars and the telegraph poles
and each one represents the hopes of a soul
you'd think that God wouldn't be so hard
when you see all the little children running
runnin in the back yard

Hold me mississippi gourd
with a sub-saharan song
somebody is wailing in the financial district sun
can anybody feel the distance to the nile
I wanna live and I wanna dance awhile

Gonna make like Eddie from a rockabilly train
Gonna beat out the blues on the ball and chain
you can't pull a holdup with a bebop gun
these people living now ain't got no heart
and they aint ever had none

down on the border
they crawl all the way
to get a grip of living where the clean-all spray
can anybody feel the distance to the nile
I wanna live and I wanna dance awhile

you can't pull a holdup with a bebop gun
these people living now ain't got no heart
and they aint ever had none

I hear a payphone ringing out on murder mile
and the sucker who's picks up
gets his number dialed
and all the sparkling waters that ever flowed
could never wash down this town so clean that it glows

And I need to see in an x-ray style
I need some rock art that don't come in no file.
can anybody feel the distance to the nile
I wanna live, and I wanna dance a while.