The Libertines (+) Time For Heroes

The Libertines ☆ Time For Heroes

Did you see the stylish kids in the riot
Shovelled up like muck
Set the night on fire
Wombles bleed truncheons and shields
You know I cherish you my love

But there’s a rumour spread nasty disease around town
You caught round the houses with your trousers down
A headrush in the bush
You know I cherish you my love
Oh how i cherish you my love

Tell me what can you want now you’ve got it all
The whole scene is obscene
Time will strip it away
A year and a day
And Bill Bones
Bill Bones knows what I mean
He knows it’s eating, it’s chewing me up
It’s not right for young lungs to be coughing up blood
And it’s all
It’s all in my hands
And its all up the walls

Well the stale chips are up and the hopes stakes are down
It’s all these ignorant faces that bring this town down
And I sighed and sunken with pride
Well I passed myself down on my knees
Yes I passed myself down on my knees

Now tell me what can you want now you’ve got it all
The whole scene is obscene
Time will strip it away
A year and a day
And Bill Bones
Bill Bones knows what I mean
He knows theres fewer more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
And we’ll die in the class we were born
But that’s a class of our own my love
A class of our own my love

Did you see the stylish kids in the riot
Shovelled up like muck
Set the night on fire
Wombles bleed truncheons and shields
You know I cherish you my love
Yeah I cherish you my love.
Thanks to Paul Greene for submitting Time For Heroes Lyrics.

Genre : Garage rock, post-punk revival
Length : 2:40
Format : 7", CD
Released : 13 January 2003
Producer : Mick Jones
Label : Rough Trade

"Time for Heroes" is a song by English rock band The Libertines, and is featured on their debut album, Up the Bracket. It was released 13 January 2003 as the third single from that album, placing at #20 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2003 in British music). Based on singer/guitarist Pete Doherty’s experiences and police brutality at the London May Day Riots of 2001.

The song was a fan favourite of The Libertines’ live shows, and Pete Doherty’s current band Babyshambles tend to play the song at most of their gigs. It is also widely acclaimed, coming in at number 2 (behind Last Nite by The Strokes) on NME’s list of the best 50 songs of the previous decade.

A music video for "Time for Heroes" was filmed in Madrid, it featured Madrid’s Metro and Colon’s Square.

In May 2007, NME magazine placed "Time For Heroes" at number 6 in its list of the 50 Greatest Indie Anthems Ever, one place below "Don’t Look Back Into The Sun," also by The Libertines. In 2011, NME placed it at number 10 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".

Graham Coxon performed a version of this song for Radio 1’s Live Lounge.

"Time for Heroes" also featured in the American film American Wedding. From Wikipedia

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