Holidays In The Sun

Album: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (1977)
Charted: 8
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  • I don't want to holiday in the sun
    I wanna go to the new Belsen
    I wanna see some history
    'Cause now I got a reasonable economy

    Oh now I got a reason
    Now I got a reason
    Now I got a reason
    And I'm still waiting
    Now I got a reason
    Now I got a reason
    To be waiting
    The Berlin wall

    In Sensurround sound in a two inch wall
    Well I was waiting for the communist call
    I didn't ask for sunshine
    And I got world war three
    I'm looking over the wall
    And they're looking at me

    Now I got a reason
    Now I got a reason
    Now I got a reason
    And I'm still waiting
    Now I got a reason
    Now I got a reason
    To be waiting
    The Berlin wall

    They're staring all night
    And they're staring all day
    I had no reason to be here at all
    Oh now I got a reason, it's no real reason
    And I'm waiting at Berlin wall
    I gotta go over the Berlin wall
    I don't understand it
    I'm gonna go over and over the Berlin wall
    I gotta go over the Berlin wall
    I'm gonna go over the Berlin wall

    Claustrophobia yeah, there's too much paranoia
    There's too many closets
    I went in before
    And now I got a reason
    It's no real reason to be waiting
    The Berlin wall

    I gotta go over the wall
    I don't understand this bit at all
    This third rate B movie show
    Cheap dialogue, cheap essential scenery

    I gotta go over the wall
    I wanna go on the Berlin wall, before them
    Come over the Berlin Wall
    I don't understand this bit at all
    I gotta go on the wall
    I wanna go on the Berlin wall
    I gotta go over the Berlin wall, before them
    Come over to the Berlin Wall
    I don't understand this bit at all
    Please don't be waiting for me Writer/s: John Lydon, Paul Thomas Cook, Sid Vicious, Stephen Philip Jones
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Margie from St. Louis, MoOne of their best songs.
  • Mike from Matawan, NjThey're ALL phucking amazing on NMTB's. It still has a great raw edge to it over 30 years later. A fantastic snap shot of a particular time and place in not just rock but the Western World.
  • Sheeberson from Wrightsville Beach, Ncno comments? REALLY? this song is sooooooooooo amazing! i cant believe im the first one to comment... probably the best song on the album (at least in my opinion)
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