Crass - Bloody Revolutions Lyrics
"Bloody Revolution" by Crass originally recorded 1980You talk about your revolution, well, that's fineBut what are you going to be doing come the time?Are you going to be the big man with the tommy-gun?Will you talk of freedom when the blood begins to run?Well, freedom has no value if violence is the priceDon't want your revolution, I want anarachy and peaceChorus: You talk of over throwing power with violence as your tool You speak of liberation and when the people rule Well ain't it people rule right now, what differnce would there be? Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on meBut what about those people who don't want your new restrictions?Those that disagree with you and have their own convictions?You say thay've got it wrong becuase they don't agree with youSo when the recolution comes you'll have to run them throughYet you say that revoution will bring freedom for us allWell freedom just ain't freedom when your back's against the wallChorusWill you indoctrinate the masses to serve your new regime?And simply do away with those whose views are too extreme?Transportation details could be left to British railWhere Zyklon B sucessed, North Sea Gas will failIt's just the same old story of man destroying manWe've got to look for other answers to the problems of this landChorusVive la revolution, people of the world uniteStand up of courage, it's your job to fightIt all seems very easy, this revolution gameBut when you start to really play thing won't be quite the sameYour intellectual theories on how it's going to beDon't seem to take into accoutn the true realityCos the truth of what you're saying, as you sit there sipping beerIs pain and death and suffering, but of course you wouldn't careYou're far too much of a man for that, if Mao did it so can youWhat's the fredom of us all agaist the suffering of a few?That's the kind of self-deception that killed ten million jewsJust the same false logic that all power-mogers useSo don't think you can fool me wiht your political tricksBovernment is government and all government is forceLeft of right, right or left, it takes the same old courseOppression and restriction, regulation, rule and lawThe seizre of that power is all your revolution's forYou romanticise your heroes, qutoe from Marx and MaoWell thir ideas of freedom are just oppression nowNothing's changed for all the death that their ideas createdIt's just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren't clearly statedNothing's really different cos all government's the sameThey can call it freedom, but slavery is the gameThere's nothgin that you offer but a dream of last years heroThe truth of revolution, bother..................... is year zero
