Sometimes

Album: Rattus Norvegicus (1977)
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  • Someday I'm going to smack your face
    Someday I'm going to smack your face
    Somebody's going to call your bluff
    Somebody's going to treat you rough
    Sometimes there is only one way out
    I've got to fight

    Sometimes I get to feel so mean
    Sometimes I get to feel so mean
    Sometimes you look like you're too clean
    Sometimes I see the in-between
    Sometimes only one way
    I've got to fight

    You're way past your station
    Beat you honey till you drop

    You're way past your station
    It's useless asking you to stop
    I got morbid fascination
    Beat you honey till you drop

    Sometimes you're going to get some stick
    Sometimes you're going to get some stick
    Somebody's standing in our way
    Somebody's gonna have to pay
    Sometimes there is only one way
    I've got to fight Writer/s: BRIAN JOHN DUFFY, DAVID GREENFIELD, HUGH ALAN CORNWELL, JEAN JACQUES BURNEL
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 2

  • Williumcobblers from EnglandJohn was always credited as Jean Jacques in the media.
  • Snaga from Dundee, Scotland  'I've got this idea for a song called 'Sometimes' and it could be about someone hitting somebody else and John [Ellis, guitarist] said, 'Great!'

    Nope. Ellis wasn't a member of the Stranglers until after Cornwell left. The John in question here is Jean-Jacques Burnel. He, to an extent, hid his Frenchness from the racist British public. He was known as John
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