Fake Plastic Trees & Common People - Songs About London

"She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge
She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,
that's where I caught her eye"

Sur une zone à Londres, Canary Wharf.

"I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall."

"Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, rolling into the night
People so busy, make me feel dizzy, taxi light shines so bright
But I don't, need no friends
As long as I gaze on Waterloo Sunset, I am in paradise
Every day I look at the world from my window
But chilly, chilly is the evening time, Waterloo sunset's fine."

"Millions of people swarming like flies 'round Waterloo underground
But Terry and Julie cross over the river where they feel safe and sound"

"London ice cracks on a seamless line"

"London's so nice back in your seamless rythmes
But we're lost on the west way
So we hold each other tightly"

"Goes to a house in Emperor's Gate"

"Says, 'Let's take a drive to Primrose Hill"

"London ice can freeze your toes,
Like anyone, I suppose"

"Born under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin'"

"Your mother she's an heiress, owns a block in Saint John's Wood"

...

"Now she gets her kicks in Stepney
Not in Knightsbridge anymore"

"Sixteen, clumsy and shy
I went to London and I,
I booked myself in at the Y ... W.C.A.
I said : "I like it here - can I stay ?
I like it here - can I stay?"

"The celebrated Mr. Kite
Performs his feat on Saturday at Bishopsgate"

"Saw two shadowed men on the Vallance Road
Said they'd pay me for your address
Oh, I was so bold"

...

"Saw the same two men on the Cally road
Said now they double their offer
I was so bold"

"You must be somewhere in London
You must be loving your life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Walking Abbey Lane"

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"Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need"

"East London's not a bomb site
It is a treasure chest
We use our penguin costumes
More than our evening dress"

"Here they come now
See them run now
Here they come now
Chelsea Girls"

"And now it's morning there's only one place we can go.
It's around the corner in Soho where other broken people go. Let's go."

"I wrote this song years ago late at night somewhere on the Goldhawk Road
I was never sure how or why"

"Oh yeah the pirate radio station told us what was going down
Got the tickets from some mashed up bloke in Camden Town
Oh and no-one seems to know exactly where it is
But that's okay 'cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz"

"London loves
The way people just fall apart
London loves
The way you just don't stand a chance
London loves
The mystery of a speeding car"

"Air-cushioned soles, I bought them on the Portobello Road on Sunday"

"I saw you walking out Shaftesbury Avenue"

...

"And we went down to Chinatown"

"This girl is a lonely girl
Takes the train from Paddington to Oxford Circus
Buys the Daily News
But passengers don't smile at her, don't smile at her"

"Maids of Bond street picture clothes, eyes of star
Maids of Bond street shouldn't have worldly cares

Maids of Bond street shouldn't have love affairs"

"And when he does his little rounds,
'Round the boutiques of London Town,
Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends,
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion"

...

"They seek him here, they seek him there,
In Regent Street and Leicester Square
Everywhere the Carnabetian army marches on,
Each one an dedicated follower of fashion"

"I know this place off Burditt Road
It was on the fifteenth floor
it had a board across the door"

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"Ooh, it's a mess alright,
yes it's Mile End"

"Drinking tea with the taste of the Thames
Sullenly on a chair on the pavement"

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"Here you'll find, my heart and I
And still we say come back
Come back to Camden"

"London traffic (state of confusion)
London traffic (blocking the streets)
London traffic (going nowhere)
London traffic (polluting the air)
Drive round London in a car
Don't really want to go far
So many cars fill the streets
Wonder why we bother at all"

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"Dirt and filth cover London
Give it a chance to breath again"

"So why do you smile
when you think about Earls Court?
but you cry when you think of all
the battles you've fought (and lost)?"

"Sup up your beer and collect your fags -
There's a row going on down near Slough"

"Carnaby Street

The street is a mirror
For our country
Reflects the rise and fall
Of our nation

The street that was a legend
Is a mockery
A part of the British tradition
Gone down the drain"

"Now in Pentonville there's all type of nation
Russian, Columbian and Jamaican
Latvian, Croatian and a Polishman
Indian, Chinaman down from Vietnam
And from the Carribbean an Jamaican
Poorly paid people formed the Irish gang
And the Scottish and the Englishman"

"I should be jumpin' shoutin' that I made it all this way
From Camden town station to 44th and 8th"

"I've got a hot body girlfriend
I've got a wallet full of cash
You can bury my body
I'm just North London trash, trash"