Crass - You Can Be Who? Lyrics
Chorus: Don't want a life of lies and pretence Don't want to play at attack and defense Just want my own life, I want to be free So you can be you, and I can be meRespectable businessman smart and secureEat the fat of the land that they robbed from the poorThe butcher is smiling as he brings down the knifeAs he cuts up the meat, he thinks of the wifeAs eminent psychiatrists suffer paranoid fitsThe ones they call mad have to pick up the bitsThe preachers speaks calmly, says it's love that we lackWhile his imaginary dagger is held at our backChorusIn bed you're the master or mistress, who cares?Abusing each other as your work off your fearsGo climb a mountain, go ***** a scoutAvoidance of self is what it's aboutPretence and illusion to avoid who you areDon't work on yourself, just polish the carSwitch on the telly afraid you might findThat as well as a body you've also a mindCheap glossy surface to cover the lieCheap easy answers to the what, where and whyMedia drivel, yet you still watch the screenLife ain't for real, it's a magazineConned from the start but hang onto the liesA slave to the cathode ray paradiseYou don't want the world, you just want the picsMedia junkies, you'd die for a fixChorusSo you say you'll regret it, well that's maybe a startBut it's so *****ing easy to act out a partSay you'll reject it, but still toe the lineConning yourself that you're doing just fineAnarchy, freedom, more games to play?Fight war, not wars? Well it's something to saySlogans and badges worn without thoughtInstant identities so cheaply boughtWell freedom ain't product, it just isn't funYou're looking for peace your work's just begunFighting oppression, aggression and hateFighting warmongers before it's too lateWe've got to fight back to show that we careFor so many years we've been silenced by fearOur lives have been ruined by liars and foolsThe powerful and greedy who bind us with rulesPoliticians and preachers who bind us with lawsStolen our peace and given us warsThey've used us as means to their own violent endsTurned us against each other, made foes out of friendsThey've distorted, perverted, polluted our livesThey've brainwashed the world with their sordid beliefsThey seek to possess, control and corruptIf it's freedom we're after, they've got to be stopped
