London's Burning (song)

Song infobox
Name = London's Burning


Artist = The Clash
Album = The Clash
Released = Start date|1977|4|8
track_no = 8
Recorded = March, 1977
Genre = Punk rock
Length = 2:10
Writer = Joe Strummer, Mick Jones
Label = CBS
Producer = Mikey Foote
Misc =

"London's Burning" is a song by The Clash from their eponymous debut album. It is the eighth track in the U. K. version of this album, and the seventh track in the U. S. A. version, from 1979.

It is song by Joe Strummer (and Mick Jones in the chorus), who starts the song shouting "London's Burning!" two times. The song continues talking about the problems in the England's traffic lines, who makes people stay in the car until the night falls, feeling bore and far of their homes. This message is clearly seen in the next verse: "I'm up and down the Westway, in an' out the lights/ What a great traffic system - it's so bright/ I can't think of a better way to spend the night/ Then speeding around underneath the yellow lights"

In the song it is repeated the racial theme so often treated by them, when they say "Black or white turn it on, face the new religion."