Tear Jerker / The Clash

• "Spanish Bombs," about the Spanish Civil War.
• "The Right Profile," about actor Montgomery Clift.
• "Straight to Hell," about the death of manufacturing, abandoned Vietnamese children of American GI's, urban decay, and the plight of immigrants.
• "Somebody Got Murdered," about a murder that no one pays attention to.
• "Lost in the Supermarket", about feelings of disillusionment and loneliness in an increasingly commercialised world.
  • Especially due to the hints at the backstory of the protagonist: "I wasn't born, so much as I fell out/Nobody seemed to notice me/", or "I heard the people who lived on the ceiling/Scream and fight most scarily/Hearing that noise was my first ever feeling/That's how it's been, all around me" suggests a fairly sad, emotionally stunted start: it's been suggested that second set of lyrics were Joe Strummer's attempt at imagining Mick Jones' childhood. The rest of the song is fairly melancholy as well.
• The story of Topper's sacking from the band, and everything that happened to him before he finally got clean is completely heartbreaking.
• The last photos of the band with Topper are pretty depressing, especially given the sad looks on everyone's faces, and that Headon was sacked the day after the session.

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