Escrita por Rick Buckler, Bruce Foxton e Paul Weller, foi gravada em 1981 e lançada como compacto em 29 de maio de 1981, com Disguises como Lado B. Foi produzida pela banda e Peter Wilson. Disguises é um cover da banda Who. Chegou ao número 4 no Reino Unido. A canção não aparece em nenhum disco original da banda.
A letra:
Down in amongst
the streets tonight
Books will burn, people laugh and cry in their
turmoil
(Turmoil turns rejoiceful)
Shed your fears and lose
your guilt
Tonight we burn responsibility in the fire
We'll
watch the flames grow higher
But if you get too burnt, you can't
come back home
And as I was standing by the edge
I
could see the faces of those who led
Pissing theirselves laughing
(and the flames grew)
Their mad eyes bulged, their flushed faces
said
The weak get crushed as the strong grow stronger
We feast on flesh and drink on
blood
Live by fear and despise love in a crisis
(What with
today's high prices)
Bring some paper and bring some wood
Bring
what's left of all your love for the fire
We'll watch the flames
grow higher
But if you get too burnt, you can't come back home
And as I was standing by the edge
I
could see the faces of those who led
Pissing theirselves laughing
(and the flames grew)
Their mad eyes bulged, their flushed faces
said
The weak get crushed as the strong grow stronger
In the funeral pyre
We'll watch the
flames grow higher
But if you get too burnt, you can't come back
home
In the funeral pyre
We'll watch the flames grow higher
But
if you get too burnt, you can't come back home
In the funeral
pyre
(Well I feel so old, when I feel so young
Well, I just
can't grow up to meet the demands)
We'll watch the flames grow
higher
But if you get too burnt, you can't come back home
(Well
I feel so old, when I feel so young
Well, I just can't grow up to
meet the demands)
(Well I feel so old, when I feel so young
Well,
I just can't grow up to meet the demands)
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