"The Equaliser" is a song often ignored by The Clash, and its writers appear to be slightly ashamed of it - singer Joe [bad word] confessed in a 1999 interview with Q magazine that this and other examples (such as the ludicrous Rock Against the Rich tour in 1988, beset by protests from the Socialist Worker newspaper and claims of hypocrisy as to what constituted "the rich" in the first place) that sometimes his social idealist beliefs would blind him and he would [bad word] obsessed with the unobtainable.

No! Gangboss no!
We don't want the whip!
As you get weaker

We don't want no gangboss
We want to equalize
We gang, we want to equalize till

No! Gangboss no!
We don't want the whip!

As you get weaker, it will get harder
So don't be like them
Your bones of effort and strength
Don't sell out to them

We don't want no gangboss
We want to equalize
We don't want no gangboss
We want to equalize

To my father's father's father work was no joy
When his son, grown of age, you've got to work now my boy
Father, father's father, they've had to work hard boy
Never ceasing for many years, want to follow that boy?

We don't want no gangboss
We want to equalize
We don't want no gangboss
We want to equalize

Till half and half is equalized, oh put down the tools
See the car, see the house, see the fabulous jewels
See the world you have built in with shoulders of iron
See the world but it is not yours say the stealers of Zion

We don't want no gangboss
We want to equalize
We don't need no gangboss
We want to equalize

Geneva, Wall street
Who makes them so fat?
Well well, me an' you
Better think about that in overdrive

Till humanize is equalize, oh put down the tools
Every face on every side throw down the tools

We don't want no gangboss
We want to equalize
We don't need no gangboss
We need to equalize

Going home, don't check with Rome
Paint strike on the door
It's one to one, the fight is on
So don't go to war

We don't need no gangboss
We need to equalize
We don't need no gangboss
We need to equalize

Move me on