The Clash - Three Card Trick

Patriots of the wasteland
Tortured 200 years
Dragging my spirit back
Deep into the dungeon again

"Oh, bring back crucifixion!"
Cry the moral Death's Head Legion
Using steel nails
Manufactured by the slaves in Asia

You won't fall for that!
Law and order is a baton in the ribs
You won't fall for that
Just like your mommy and your daddy did

Blood inside a fountain pen
Wrote you out of life again
And who knows any better than to
Kick and scratch under English weather

From a chain gang to the mill
The mill that sits on the top of the hill
Fog drowned towns are gonna have to fade
The wrong side of the scissor blade

You won't fall for that!
Law and order is a baton in the ribs
You won't fall for that
Just like your mommy and your daddy did

I'll eat my hat
Oh, I'm gonna be sick
They own the pack
We play the three card trick

Patriots of the wasteland
Tortured 200 years
Dragging my spirit back
Deep into the dungeon again

"Oh, bring back crucifixion!"
Cry the moral Death's Head Legion
Using steel nails
Manufactured by the slaves in Asia

You won't fall for that!
Law and order is a baton in the ribs
You won't fall for that
Just like your mommy and your daddy did

I'll eat the hat
I'm gonna be sick
They own the pack
We try to play the three card trick

Run, run, run, run, run, don't you know?
Where is the place where you hid the ace?
Oh, don't you know that's all we've got to deceive?
They're gonna fall for your three card trick