68 Guns Will Never Die!

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And now they’re trying to take my life away
Forever young I cannot stay
Hey!
On every corner I can see them there
They don’t know my name they don’t know my kind
They’re after you with their promises
(promises of love)
They’re after you to sign your life away
Yay! Yo!

Sixty-eight guns will never die
Sixty-eight guns our battle cry
Sixty-eight guns
Sixty-eight guns
Oh, the sixty-eight

Living in the backstreets
That’s our home from home
The painted walls were all we’ve ever known
‘The Guns Forever’, that’s our battle cry
It is the flag that we fly so high
For every day they’ll try and drag us down
(drag us down and down)
I cry with anger I have done no crime!
No
Yay! Yo!

Sixty-eight guns will never die
Sixty-eight guns our battle cry
Sixty-eight guns will never die
Sixty-eight guns our battle cry
Sixty-eight guns
Sixty-eight guns
The sixty-eight

Up on the terrace I can hear the crowd roar
Sixty eight guns
And in the subway I can hear them whisper
Sixty eight guns
Through all the raging glory of the years
We never once thought of the fears
For what we’d do when the battle cry was over
Nothing lasts forever is all they seem to tell you when you’re young

I, I do swear
To unbreak the promise
To unbreak the vow
Unbreak it

When you’re young
Have no illusion, no disillusion

Unbreak the promise
Unbreak the vow
Uphold the promise

Sixty eight guns

Sixty-eight guns will never die
Sixty-eight guns our battle cry
Sixty-eight guns will never die
Sixty-eight guns our battle cry
Sixty-eight guns
Sixty-eight guns
The sixty eight guns
Sixty eight guns
The sixty eight guns

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

I always assumed they were hiding the 68 guns in their hair.

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

TS:The Alarm Vs SWA

brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

I remember liking this song!

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm taking the next train to Downloadsville!

rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

What are/were The Alarm fighting for?

kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

For: The People
Against: The Man

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 21 August 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Seeing the lyric written down for the first time, it occurs to me that this is probably something to do with the band's local football team.

Any ideas?

Soukesian, Sunday, 21 August 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

I confess that I liked this song in my impressionable early teenage years.

John Hunter, Sunday, 21 August 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

probably something to do with the band's local football team

Close...

Mike Peters:
The song was inspired by a book I'd read about Glasgow street gangs, in the year 1968. 1 always thought that was an important year for young people, it was the first time they really said 'no.' It was just when the hippie thing was ending, when peace and love was all going sour. So we're writing about a street gang called the 68 Guns. It's about how society reacts against the presence of these young people on the street, and how they turn to violence in response.
(Boston Rock, 1984)

rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 21 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Ah. An ironically bombastic anthem about a struggling local side would have been almost touching. Sorry, wrong number.

Soukesian, Sunday, 21 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

TS: Glasgow 68 vs Stonewall 69

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 21 August 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Université de Paris 68

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t312/T312354A.jpg

rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 21 August 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...
The greatest song by one of the most undeservedly underrated bands ever.

Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)


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