Phil Adams

A love letter to the lyrics of Levi Stubbs’ Tears by Billy Bragg

With the money from her accident she bought herself a mobile home. That is not your average opening line. Most pop songs don’t get all in your face from the get-go, certainly not with a masterpiece of compact, single-sentence story telling such as this. Billy Bragg dispenses with the pleasantries in favour of a narrative gauntlet.