Magazine 'Shot By Both Sides' live Belgian TV 1979

Live TV gig on July 2 1979, a few months before guitarist John McGeogh was poached by Siouxsie & the Banshees. The Banshees also played this show, so perhaps this is when they decided McGeogh would fit (see their Hong Kong Garden clip also at this channel).
This footage has been used on YT with the single dubbed on - here's the real live sound and peformance in HQ. Filmed for Belgian TV show Folllies.

Magazine 'Shot By Both Sides' lyrics:

This and that, they must be the same
What is legal is just what's real
What I'm given to understand
Is exactly what I steal
I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
I was shocked to find what was allowed
I didn't lose myself in the crowd
Shot by both sides
On the run to the outside of everything
Shot by both sides
They must have come to a secret understanding
New offenses always in my nerves
They're taking my time by force
They all sound the same when they scream
As a matter of course
I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
I was shocked to find what was allowed
I didn't lose myself in the crowd
Shot by both sides
On the run to the outside of everything
Shot by both sides
They must have come to a secret understanding
Why are you so edgy Kid?
Asks the man with the voice
One thing follows another
You live and learn, you have no choice
I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
I was shocked to find what was allowed
I didn't lose myself in the crowd
I didn't lose myself to the crowd
I didn't lose myself to the crowd
I was shocked to find what was allowed
I didn't lose myself in the crowd
But I wormed my way
But I wormed my way
But I wormed my way
But I wormed my way
But I wormed my way
But I wormed my way
But I wormed my way
But I wormed my way
Shot by both sides
I don't ask who's doing the shooting
Shot by both sides
We must have come to a secret understanding

Songwriter: Howard Devoto
Shot By Both Sides lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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