Complete Control - The Clash

They said, «Release 'Remote Control'»

But we didn’t want it on the label

They said, «Fly to Amsterdam»

The people laughed, but the press went mad

Oh, someone’s really smart

Oh, complete control, yeah that’s a laugh

On the last tour my mates they couldn’t get in

I’d open up the back door but they’d get run out again

And at every hotel we was a’met by the law

Come for the party, come to make sure

Oh, have we done something wrong?

Oh, complete control, even over this song

You’re my guitar hero

They said we’d be artistically free

When we signed that bit of paper

They meant «Let's make a lots of money

And worry about it later»

Oh, I’ll never understand

Oh, complete control, let me see your other hand

I don’t trust you, so why should you trust me?

Huh?

All over the news spread fast

They’re dirty, they’re filthy, they ain’t a’gonna last

This is Joe Public (Control) speaking

I’m controlled in the body (C-O-N control)

Controlled in the mind

This is the top rockers (Control)

With your zone in the price you whore (C-O-N control)

Comes to me

Total, C-O-N control

Total, (parent, control) C-O-N control

We’ve got the rock ‘n' roll (C-O-N control)

That means you

I kick it, I fight it, I gotta get up at it (C-O-N control)

I gotta kick it