A song by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones.
This song is on the last "real" Clash album, Combat Rock. It's a sad, strange, disjunct, floating song with much echo and dub-style thingies flitting between the speakers. It makes a nice melting spot between Jones' increasing interest in studio trickery and Strummer's ongoing Hemingwayish fascination with violence, combat, and so on (not to mention old movie stars...).
"Rain on the leaves..." It's very effective. I'd always wondered who Sean Flynn was. Now that I know, I think the song is perfect for it.
You know he heard
The drums of war
When the past
Was a closing door
The drums beat into the jungle floor.
Closing door
Closing door
Rain on the leaves
Soldier sing
You never never hear anything
They filled the sky with a tropical storm.
Closing door
Closing door
You know he head the drums of war
Each man knows what he's looking for.
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