Ready For Action

On The Air: Ready For Action [7” single] (1980)

Lyrics & Music: Simon Townshend

Ready For Action

Mark Brzezicki is credited with drawing the comic strip that is on the front and back of the sleeve. The lyrics to the track are within the frames. (Note the misspelling of ‘Townshend’)

Ready For Action

I’m gonna dance in the back row of the cinema
I’m gonna shoot you in the back
At the very first chance I get
I don’t need your complications
I don’t need your satisfactions
Oh, why do I feel this way

There’s a boy scout licking shoes for a living
Ready for action
Some young girl working in a kitchen
Ready for action

Pretty girls in the park
Ready for action
In the dark
Ready for action
Kids like me
Ready for action
Don’t get a chance in society
I’m ready

Daddy, watch your daughter
Watch her close
Any day now
She’s liable to take an overdose
She don’t need your understanding
She don’t need a light backhanding
She ain’t as mad as you say

Deaf and dumb, oh so young
Ready for action
Persecuted, unreputed
Ready for action

Pretty girls in the park
Ready for action
In the dark
Ready for action
Kids like me
Ready for action
Don’t get a chance in society
I’m ready

I’m getting, I’m getting, I’m getting
I’m getting, I’m getting, I’m getting

I’m getting ready for action

I can’t take all this messin’ around
I’m ready for action

Pretty girls in the park
Ready for action
In the dark
Ready for action
Kids like me
Ready for action
Don’t get a chance in society
I’m ready

I’m ready, I’m ready for action