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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Futura 2000
Spoken Word
Joe Strummer
Guitar
Mick Jones
Guitar
Paul Simonon
Bass Guitar
Tommy Mandel
Keyboards
Topper Headon
Drums
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Joe Strummer
Songwriter
Mick Jones
Songwriter
Topper Headon
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
The Clash
Producer
Eddie García
Tape Operator
Glyn Johns
Mixing Engineer
Jerry Green
Recording Engineer
Joe Blaney
Recording Engineer
Tim Young
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
If you ain't reggae for it, funk out
No one knockin' at your door? Funk out
Overpowered by funk? Funk out
Combatative, repetitive
Don't life just funk you out?
[Verse 2]
Asinine, stupefying
Can the clone line dry you out?
Part of the swarming mass? Funk out
Slugged by the new increase? Funk out
Scared of the human bomb? Funk out
Overpowered by funk? Funk out
[Verse 3]
Buy dog food
Rogue elephants
Tarzan on a ticker tape (Ooh)
Breakfasts, cereals
You know you can't escape
[Verse 4]
Overpowered by funk
Don't you love our Western ways?
Car crashed by funk
Don't you love our Western ways?
Benny Goodman, trial by jury
A phone box full of books
Is my name in there?
Dustcarts at sunrise
No one gets off the hooks
[Verse 5]
Car crashed
Food for the hungry millions? Funk out
Home for the floating people? Funk out
Over-drunk on power
[Verse 6]
This is a message from Futura
Don't prophesize the future
I liven up the culture
Because I'm deadly as a vulture (Oh, we're drunk on power)
I paint on civilization
I have this realization
It's environmentally wack
So presenting my attack (Oh, we're drunk on power)
And I'll brighten up your shack
I'm down by law
And that's a fact (Funk out)
Please give me a wall
Any building, dull or tall (Oh, we're drunk on power)
I spray clandestine, night subway (Funk out)
I cover red-purple on top of grey, hey (Oh, we're drunk on power)
No slashing, 'cause it ain't the way
The T.A. blew forty mil' they say (Funk out)
We threw down by night
And they scrubbed it off by day (Power)
Okay, tourists, picture frame
Tickets here for the graffiti train
[Verse 7]
Funk power, over and out (Get ready for it)
Funk, funk, funk, fu (Funked out)
Funk, funk, funk, funk, funk (Open up your door)
Funk, funk, funk, funk (Open up your door)
Funk, funk, funk, funk (Ha)
[Verse 8]
Funk out (Ha)
Funk out
Written by: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Topper Headon