The English Beat - Two Swords (Live at US Festival 9/3/1982)

The English Beat (a.k.a. The Beat) perform "Two Swords" live at the US Music Festival in San Bernardino in 1982. "Two Swords" is the third track off the album, "I Just Can't Stop It", released in 1980. The English Beat was one of two bands that played the US Festival both years (1982 &1983) the other band being Oingo Boingo.
The English Beat are a 2 Tone ska revival band founded in Birmingham, England in 1978. Their songs fuse ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock, and their lyrics deal with themes of love, unity and sociopolitical topics.
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Lyrics:
I've never been one for the punch-ups
But look I really hate them nazis
A certain something starts to wind me up
How could I hate them of so violently
When two swords slashing at each other
Only sharpen one another
And in the long run even he's your brudda'
Said even though that kid's a nazi
Even though that kid's a nazi
Always attack those things in someone else,
Reflections that you can't face in yourself,
To make precious fascistic feeling gone
It makes you turn into a bigger one
Bigger...
When two swords slashing at each other
Only sharpen one another
And in the long run even he's your brudda'
Said even though that kid's a nazi
Even though that kid's a nazi
Are you fighting the Front,
Or just fronting a fight
Sometimes it's hard to see the left from the right
Are we angry, are we looking for peace
Or just tryin' to win the war...
...by killing all the enemy off
Just to kill all the enemy off
Kill the enemy off
Kill the enemy off
I've never been one for the punch-ups
But look I really hate them nazis
A certain something starts to wind me up
How could I hate them of so violently
When two swords slashing at each other
Only sharpen one another
And in the long run even he's your brudda'
Even though that kid's a nazi
Even though that kid's a nazi
Said even though that kid's a nazi

[@boxingjerapah]

Love them. Criminally overlooked for way too long. Perfect song for 2020.

[@yungee3921]

Spot on mate. This should be an anthem for the current time.

[@sspbrazil]

I’ve always found it clever how Dave was able to sneak a certain “c” word into this song which is virtually undetectable when you listen to it.

[@Keith-zu4tz]

RIP Roger. Thank you for the music. 💔

[@arshk3612]

rip roger miss you . toast the rocks off up there in heaven

[@JohnnyZemo]

R.I.P. Ranking Roger

[@nicensleazy1892]

bloody amazing band - spoke for so many

[@ryanjsimpson]

very tight- great version

[@ShoutFactoryMusic]

Thank you for sharing

[@milsub59]

Way ahead of their time

[@keishamartin5137]

I miss this soooooo much

[@stephanearthaud8308]

Art is the way to dress truth with beauty !

[@katoness]

Tight

[@ThePunitiveDamages]

RIP

[@michaelshiffman6271]

Nice lads. Political schmucks.

[@alfredocarpaneto5976]

Antifa fascists need to listen to this on repeat

[@rlc9]

Div! 🤡🤡🤡

[@joefilter2923]

Ludicrous. Adolf was misunderstood huh?