 Genius Lyrics
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The Specials – Nelson Mandela
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Jerry Dammers wrote the song after a 1983 Anti-Apartheid rally.
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The Specials – Listening Wind
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Mojique sees his village from a nearby hill / Mojique thinks of days before Americans came / He sees the foreigners in growing numbers / He sees the foreigners in fancy houses / He
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The Specials – Gangsters
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The Specials first single, released when they were still known as The Special A.K.A..
Also the first release on *2Tone Records, number TT1.
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The Specials – Do the Dog
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Very loosely based on ‘The Dog’ by Rufus Thomas, this track from The Specials' 1979 LP debut expresses a disdainful view of the violent factionalism present in the UK youth and
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The Specials – Everybody Knows
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Everybody knows that the dice are loaded / Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed / Everybody knows the war is over / Everybody knows the good guys lost / Everybody knows the
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The Specials – Concrete Jungle
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A key track on the 1979 self-titled debut from U.K. ska revivalists The Specials, “Concrete Jungle” deals with the racial violence plaguing England at the time. The song was
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The Specials – Raquel
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(Rock an' roll!) / (1, 2, 3, 4-) / (Fuck off!-) / Raquel, go to Hell (Raquel) / Raquel, go to Hell (Raquel) / Raquel, go to Hell (Raquel) / Raquel, go to Hell (Raquel) / You can do
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The Specials – Pressure Drop
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It is you, oh yeah / It is you, oh yeah / I said pressure drop, oh, pressure / Oh yeah, pressures gonna drop on you / I said pressure drop, oh, pressure / Oh yeah, pressures gonna
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The Specials – Maggie's Farm
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A cover of the Bob Dylan original, the Specials' version of “Maggie’s Farm” is subtly reworked to refer to a different Maggie:
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The Specials – You're Wondering Now
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Is everybody happy? / Knock, knock, knock, knock / You can't come in / Knock, knock, knock / You can't come in / You're wondering now / What to do, now you know this is the end
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The Specials – Why?
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Why did you try to hurt me? / I got to know, know, know / Did you really want to kill me? / Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why / Why do we have to fight? / Why must we fight
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The Specials – Blank Expression
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Snow is falling all around / Seven o'clock and the roads are blocked / So I walk down town / There's no one around / I walk in a bar and immediately I sense danger / You look at me
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The Specials – (Dawning of a) New Era
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This is the dawning of a new era! / This is the dawning of a new era! / I met a girl from area three / She told me that she worked in a chicken factory / This is the dawning of a
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The Specials – The Lunatics
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[Verse 1] / I see a clinic full of cynics / Who want to twist the peoples' wrists / They're watching every move we make / We're all included on their list / [Chorus] / The lunatics
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The Specials – Nite Klub
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[Intro] / Is this the in place to be? / What am I doing here? / Watching the girls go by / Spending money on / [Verse 1] / Sleep all day / It's the only way / I'm a parasite / I
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The Specials (Ft. Rhoda Dakar) – The Boiler
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I went out shopping last Saturday / I was getting some gear, and this guy offered to pay / Who's the hunk? I think to myself / For so many years I've been left on the shelf / An
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The Specials – Rat Race
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You're working at your leisure to learn the things you'll need / The promises you make tomorrow will carry no guarantee / I've seen your qualifications, you've got a Ph.D / I've
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The Specials – Do Nothing
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[Verse 1] / Each day I walk along this lonely street / Trying to find, find a future / New pair of shoes are on my feet / Cause fashion is my only culture / [Chorus] / Nothing ever
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The Specials – Racist Friend
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqH_0LPVoho
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The Specials – Monkey Man
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[Intro] / This one's for all the bouncers / Big, big monkey man / [Chorus] / Ay-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay / Them a tell me you / Huggin' up a big monkey man / Ay-ay-ay, ay-ay-ay / Them a
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The Specials – Fuck All the Perfect People
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To be or not to be / To free or not to free / To crawl or not to crawl / Fuck all those perfect people / To sleep or not to sleep / To creep or not to creep / And some can't
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The Specials – Too Hot
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Too Hot / This town is too hot / Now they're callin' for their guns / About to spoil the rude boys' funs / But rude boys never give up their guns / It's too hot / No man, can tell
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The Specials – Doesn't Make It Alright
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[Verse 1] / Just because you're nobody / It doesn't mean that you're no good / Just because there's a reason / It doesn't mean it's understood / [Chorus] / It doesn't make it
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The Specials – War Crimes
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Bombs to settle arguments, the order of the boot / Can you hear them crying in the rubble of Beirut? / I can still see people dying, now who takes the blame? / The numbers are
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The Specials – Freedom Highway
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March, the freedom highway / March, each and every day / March, the freedom highway / March, each and every day / Made up my mind and I won't turn around / Made up my mind and I
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The Specials (Ft. Saffiyah Khan) – 10 Commandments
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The commandments of I, Saffiyah Khan / Thou shall not listen to Prince Buster / Or any other man offering kindly advice / In matters of my own conduct / You may call me a feminazi
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The Specials – B.L.M
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[Intro] / Lynval Golding, born 1951 / Mendes, St Catherine, Jamaica / [Verse 1] / The year was 1954, you know / Sir Winston Churchill shout across the Western islands / He said, "
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The Specials – Alcohol
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An icy wind blows through the door / You feel like you've been here before / You tremble and you start to sweat / The symptoms of withdrawal / Alcohol / Why do you do it? / Why do
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The Specials – Stereotype
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He's just a stereotype / He drinks his age in pints / He has girls every night / He doesn't really exist / He spends his weekends with a load of blokes / He forgets the punchline
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The Specials – Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
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Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think / Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink / The years go by, as quickly as you wink / Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself / It's later
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The Specials – Vote for Me
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[Verse 1] / If we vote for you, do you promise / To be upright, decent, and honest? / To have our best interest at heart? / You understand why we don't believe you / You're way too
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The Specials – My Next Door Neighbor
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You know my next door neighbor, about to make me lose my mind / You know my next door neighbor, about to make me lose my mind / They come knock on my door, want to borrow something
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The Specials – Pearl's Cafe
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Dammers / You saw a woman in a cafe, lips of crimson, yellow grin / Her shoes were wrong and she looked extremely thin / Her jewels were faked, she had a rinse, her hair was
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The Specials – It's Up to You
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What you gonna do, when guests drop in on you? / We won't go away, 'cos we've come out to stay / Stand there like parked cars if you want to / We can't force you to enjoy this
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The Specials – Get Up, Stand Up
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Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights / Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights / Get up, stand up, don't give up the fight / Preacher man, don't tell me / Heaven is under
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The Specials – Bonediggin'
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I'm putting away my working clothes for the weekend / I ain't gonna do that job no more / I'm tired of being used and mistreated / So tired of being feeling on like a cloud / This
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The Specials – I Can't Stand It
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When I woke up this morning alone in my bed / In a cold room with damp sheets, and a pain in my head / I saw you last night and you drove me insane / Why must you hurt me again and
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The Specials – Black, Brown and White
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This little song I'm singing about / People you know it's true / If you're black and got to work for a living / This is what they say to you / They say if you white, should be
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The Specials – Tears in My Beer
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Tears in my beer, well it just ain't clear / I had a dream, well so it seems / She's in the sun, not having fun / And I'm standing here, just the lonely one / Tears in my beer
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The Specials – Sock It to ’Em J.B.
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While the original song by Rex Garvin was recorded and written by African-Americans in New York, this cover version had a British band paying tribute to the James Bond film series
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The Specials – I Don’t Mind Failing in This World
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I don't mind failing in this world / I don't mind failing in this world / Don't mind wearing the ragged britches / 'Cause those who succeed are the sons of bitches / I don't mind
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The Specials – Fantasize
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Got this funny feeling going through my head / That if I go down to the pub I might just end up in bed / With a blond or a brunette or a red head or two / But oh what am I saying
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The Specials – Stereotypes/Stereotypes, Part 2
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[Part 1: Terry Hall] / [Chorus] / He's just a stereotype / He drinks his age in pints / He has girls every night / And he doesn't really exist / [Verse 1] / He spends his weekends
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