Johnny Marr Songs - Boys Get Straight Lyrics

Johnny Marr - Boys Get Straight

Johnny Marr - Boys Get Straight Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Playland
Released: 2014

Boys Get Straight Lyrics

It was one of those times
When I wasn't really there
I'm a side effect I said
In town disintegration was
Doing me in
Do me in again

Sometimes so good
Makes me think of revolution
Can we do it again
Something in our blood
Makes people needy people
Consuming again

Boys
Get straight
Shot down
In flames
Small time
Happenings
Too late
Boys
Get straight

Reactivate
Reload

Sometimes so good
Makes people needy people
Getting used again
Some things in our blood
Makes it so easy for them
Consume consume again

Reactivate
Reload

Boys
Get straight
Wild life
Escapes
High time
Happenings
Too late
Boys
Get straight

Writer/s: JAMES DOVIAK, JOHNNY MARR
Publisher: CHRSALYIS MUSIC GROUP INC
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The lyrics for this song were inspired by the situationists of the late '60s. "They were provocateurs," Marr told Under The Radar magazine. "They influenced a few songs on both my solo records."

"I read an essay criticizing the right-on, hipster, left wing so it felt pretty good to not get too righteous looking at your own side," he continued. "It felt inspired to turn the tables and say, 'It's all very well having political correctness, but it doesn't really count for very much when you're harassing some people on the street with your mates when you're all f--ked up on a Friday night. You're on the same side as the enemy then. You're just as gross as the other side.'"

The Situationist International was an international organization of social revolutionaries, who were active from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972. The exclusive membership was made up of mainly French avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. They were greatly influential in shaping the ideas behind the May 1968 French insurrections.