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


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