This is Radio Clash

Interrupting all programmes...

this is radio clash from pirate satellite

orbiting your living room,

cashing in the bill of rights

cuban army surplus or refusing all third lights

this is radio clash on pirate satellite

this sound does not subscribe to the international plan

in the psycho shadow of the white right hand

then that see ghettology as an urban vietnam

giving deadly exhibitions of murder by napalm

this is radio clash tearing up the seven veils

this is radio clash please save us, not the whales

this is radio clash underneath a mushroom cloud

this is radio clash you don't need that funeral

forces have been looting my humanity

curfews have been curbing the end of liberty

hands of law have sorted through my identity

but now this sound is brave

and wants to be free - anyway to be free

this is radio clash on pirate satellite

this is not free europe

not an armed force network

this is radio clash using audio ammunition

this is radio clash can we get that world to listen?

this is radio clash using aural ammunition

this is radio clash can we get that world to listen?

this is radio clash on pirate satellite

(This is Radio Clash)

Radio Radio

I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial

Doing anything my radio advised

With every one of those late night stations

Playing songs bringing tears to my eyes

I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver

When the switch broke 'cause it's old

They're saying things that I can hardly believe

They really think we're getting out of control

Capital Radio (one - two)

yes, it's time for the dr. goebbels show!


there's a tower in the heart of london


with a radio station right at the top


they don't make the city beat


they're making all the action stop


a long time ago there were pirates


beaming waves from the sea


but now all the stations are silenced


'cos they ain't got a government license


wanna tell your problems


phone in from your bedsit room


having trouble with your partner


let us all in on the news


if you wanna hear a record


get the word from aiden day


he picks all the hits to play


to keep you in your place all day


capital radio


in tune with nothing


don't touch that dial

(The Clash)

Radio Girl

Non so che aspetto abbia

non l’ho mai vista in viso

ma l'ascolto sulla mia radio

dall’una alle quattro ogni mattina;

suona tutti i miei dischi preferiti

mi da le ultime notizie

le parlo dal letto ogni notte

e fa svanire i miei blues con il suo rock

perché è la mia ragazza, la mia ragazza della radio

(Radio Girl - Marshall Crenshaw)

La Radio

Amo la radio perchè arriva dalla gente

entra nelle case

e ci parla direttamente

e se una radio è libera

ma libera veramente

mi piace ancor di più

perché libera la mente.

Con la radio si può scrivere

leggere o cucinare.

Non c'è da stare immobili

seduti lì a guardare.

E forse è proprio questo

che me la fa preferire:

è che con la radio non si smette di pensare.

(Eugenio Finardi - da La Radio, 1976)