Crass - I Know There Is Love Lyrics
Think I was born on this wretched earth for you to govern and kill?In your stinking factories and offices with your stupid systems and skills?Think I've got nothing better to do than to grovel in the shit and the crap?Asking for the bread and home that's mine and waiting for a pat on the back?Think I've got nothing better to do than to live in the lie that you give?Learn the sweet morals, the lessons, the gamesAnd praise god for the fact that I live?You took me and made me a MAN by making me strong, the power of this landYou took a woman and taught her she's lessA slave to the strong no more than a guestYou taught me to love, find a mate and to takeA woman to serve but your love is just rapeYou leave me my children to hold and distortTo bind with your rules of normality til caughtI give them the food that you sell in the shopsI'm told is has goodness when it's only the slopsYou've taken my health with your shitty benevolenceYou've take my dignity with your dole queue dependenceYou taught me to steal when I wanted to shareTo take for myself and not even careYou've stifled my vision with oppressive authorityDreams and the hopes nearly fade to strangle meGave me confusion until I had learntTo obey all the orders and never get burntI shout in the streets and you take my voiceThis sham of democracy leaves no choiceTake my eyes 'til there's nothing to seeExcept abuse and destruction, no chance to be freeTaken my thinking, my means of survivalThrust in my hand your gun and your bibleTold me to kill for the lord up aboveYou've given me hate when I KNOW THERE IS LOVETold me to kill for the lord up aboveYou've given me hate when I KNOW THERE IS LOVE
