X-Ray Style

by The Friday Covers

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Mates, neighbours and campfire jammers for nearly 20 years , Mark Frith and Justin Adams finally collaborate on a cover of one of Joe Strummer’s most underrated songs , “X-Ray Style”.
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The photo is of Justin meeting his hero in 1979 by Perry Ogden.

lyrics

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 the C.B. 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, running in the backyard
On a 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 on my rockabilly train
Gonna beat out the blues on my ball and chain
Oh, you can't pull a hold-up with a Be-Bop gun
There's people living now
Who aint got no heart and ain't never had none

Down on the border they crawl all the way
To get a clip of living with a clean-all spray
Can anybody feel the distance to the Nile
I wanna live and I wanna dance awhile
You can't pull a hold-up with a Be-Bop gun

And I need to see in an x-ray style
I need some rock art that don't come in a vial
Can anybody feel the distance to the Nile
I wanna live and I wanna dance awhile

And all the sparkling waters that ever flowed
Could never wash down this town so clean that it glowed

Can anybody feel the distance to the Nile
I wanna live and I wanna dance awhile

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released April 23, 2021

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