Brother Joe

...............................for Joe Strummer

you take my heart and bounce it on the floor

you take my legs and push them out the door

you wrote just what you thought, and more

you didn't buy your soul inside a store

Joe Strummer, where the ocean meets the shore

beery boys, and the war on war

a virgin in a whorehouse

the working class, on tour

red banner of every color now unfurled

a citizen of time, and of the world

a virgin in a whorehouse

the working class, on tour

you stand firm, where others choose to fall

modesty incarnate, full of balls

you're busy kicking bricks from the wall

brain and heart striding in one place

the future unwritten, written on your face

redemption song of the human race

so undefeated, and once again, for sure

the bosses and the cops are hitting the poor

Tom Joad, Joe, Johnny Appleseed

they might pass by you, in your hour of need