Panic

Album: Louder Than Bombs (1986)
Charted: 11
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  • Panic on the streets of London
    Panic on the streets of Birmingham
    I wonder to myself
    Could life ever be sane again?
    The Leeds side-streets that you slip down
    I wonder to myself

    Hopes may rise on the Grasmere
    But honey pie, you're not safe here
    So you run down
    To the safety of the town
    But there's panic on the streets of Carlisle
    Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
    I wonder to myself

    Burn down the disco
    Hang the blessed DJ
    Because the music that they constantly play
    It says nothing to me about my life
    Hang the blessed DJ
    Because the music they constantly play

    On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down
    The provincial towns you jog 'round

    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ
    Hang the DJ, hang the DJ Writer/s: Johnny Marr, Steven Morrissey
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Jol11 from LeedsJust watched a mini documentary claiming this song was actually written a year before Chernobyl and is about Jimmy Savile
  • Randy from Grande Prairie, AbI would like to add Ron Sexsmith to that list. Not the singer that Morrissey is but an incredible wordsmith. Give him a listen.
  • Dave from Liverpool, United KingdomMy mate was at school with Morrissey and said that when he was 16, the 11 year-old pupils used to beat him up. He was a real soft target....
  • Jay from Syracuse, NyMorrissey is England's best living writer--any genre. His handling of the language, the originality of phrasing, the wit and polish of professional songwriting combined with the confessional pathos of amateur rock--without rival. He and Dylan are the only two lyricists of the last 50 years whose work I can imagine human beings reading a thousand years from now--if there are still human beings then. I marvel at his skill.
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