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Big A, little A, bouncing B
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The system might have got you but it won't get me
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External control are you gonna let them get you?
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Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you?
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You say you want to ba yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you?
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They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you
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Hello, hello, hello, this is the Lord God, can you hear?
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Hellfire and damnation's what I've got for you down there
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On earth I have ambassadors, archbishop, vicar, pope
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We'll blind you with morality, you'd best abandon any hope,
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We're telling you you'd better pray cos you were born in sin
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Right from the start we'll build a cell and then we'll lock you in
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We sit in holy judgement condemning those that stray
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We offer our forgiveness, but first we'll make you pay
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External control are you gonna let them get you?
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Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you?
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You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you?
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They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you
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Hello, hello, hello, now here's a massage from your queen
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As figurehead of the status quo I set the social scene
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I'm most concerned about my people, I want to give them peace
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So I'm making sure they stay in line with my army and police
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My prisons and my mental homes have ever open doors
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For those amongst my subjects who dare to ask for more
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Unruliness and disrespect are things I can't allow
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So I'll see the peasants grovel if they refuse to bow
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External control are you gonna let them get you?
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Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you?
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You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you?
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They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you
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Introducing the Prime Sinister, she's a mother to us all
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Like the dutch boy's finger in the dyke her arse is in the wall
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Holding back the future waiting for the seas to part
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If Moses did it with is faith, she'll do it with an army
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Who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there
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Guarding national heritage no matter what or where
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Palaces for kings and queens, mansions for the rich
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Protection for the wealthy, defence of privilege
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They've learnt the ropes In Ireland, engaged in civil war
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Fighting for the ruling classes in their battle against the poor
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So Ireland's just an island? It's an island of the mind
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Great Britain? Future? Bollocks, you'd better look behind
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Round every other corner stands P.C. 1984
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Guardian of the future, he'll implement the law
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He's there as a grim reminder that no matter what you do
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Big brothers system's always there with his beady eyes on you
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From God to local bobby, in home and street and school
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They've got your name and number while you've just got their rule
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We've got to look for methods to undermine those powers
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It's time to change the tables. The future must be ours
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Big A, little A, bouncing B
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The system might have got you but it won't get me
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Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do
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I am he and she is she but you're the only you
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No one else has got your eyes, can see the things you see
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It's up to you to change your life and my life's up to me
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The problems that you suffer from are problems that you make
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The shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to take
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If you don't like the life you live, change it now it's yours
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Nothing has effects if you don't recognise the cause
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If the programme's not the one you want, get up, turn off the set
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It's only you that can decide what life you're gonna get
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If you don't like religion you can be the antichrist
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If your tired of politics you can be an anarchist
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But no one ever changed the church by pulling down a steeple
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And you'll never change the system by bombing number ten
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Systems just aren't made of bricks they're mostly made of people
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You may send them into hiding, but they'll be back again
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If you don't like the rules they make, refuse to play their game
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If you don't want to be a number, don't give them your name
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If you don't want to be caught out, refuse to hear their question
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Silence is a virtue, use it for your own protection
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They'll try to make you play their game, refuse to show your face
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If you don't want to be beaten down, refuse to join their race
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Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do
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I am he and she is she but you're they only you
Crass - Big A Little A
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