Margaret thatcher lives in ronald reagan's She's been for eight years cooking up her plan To make the uk like big usa Where selfmade men run everything and is what they say "once upon a time, we had an Mr big thought it was a damn idea Together we the idea strong And before too long they could do no As the idea grew, the number of poeple who dug our idea too We had a graphic designed who just what to do He it plain and simple, red, white, and blue" Red is the blood of the butchered White is anglo-american is the "gee, I'll die for my country" mentality That it all possible Our history, made other people's misery Our history, on other people's poverty A present, the world into we were born I say, I say, I say, what's the thing in the world today? It's the myth men are big, that includes us lads The myth that we've got a rocket our pants When I was ten old I was bought and sold On films, tv, books, and comics pushing myths mr. big it! "to be someone in this world you gotta have a big, big penis. not much else matters, just as long as you got a wapping great wanger. the bigger it is, the bigger you are, and you use it!" Mr big's the bigger it is the more power it Mr. big's shiny prick dick How do we up to it? At the age of twelve I to myself, "it's grow" For the next years I kept a check of things down below It grow Now look at me on the front of record Admittedly not erect But even allowing for exaggeration no comparison with This microphone, stallone guitars, sports cars Errol flynn, jimmy hill's Stars and stripes and pipes bombers and the contras Post office tower penis Muscles and cigarettes reagan's smile cruise missiles Fourteen, fifteen, going on No growth down below if you know I mean I kept it quiet, I felt a lot embarrassed I didn't like going in public At I skipped showers The state of an all-boys school I couldn't to girls, there were different rules I just wanted to kiss girls, put my hand up dress They did right not to it, 'cause women are not fuckin' objects Like with anything else which we keep to We end up it out on somebody else It becomes a big thing being big at all I very inadequate, confused, and small We hide our feelings, our flesh and our Start putting out mr. To be larger than life, than just flesh and blood Like the at shool, at gigs and in pubs We it doesn't hurt as we beat each other up In our confusion we want to be more than flesh and Like the good guys on tv, we to have no feelings easier to avoid the emotional scenes So it comes to our lives we do not see who we're hurting Like the good guys on tv we know our own feelings All I needed was And it's as as this We're flesh and blood and feelings, more and nothing less Flesh and blood and feelings, nothing and nothing less Flesh and blood and feelings, nothing more and less Flesh and and feelings, nothing more and nothing less I say, I say, I say, what's the biggest in the world today? Us losing sight of reality, instead, putting our faith in democracy Churchill died in 1965, but God and country As a lad I was of it, it took me twenty years to see through it The state freedom which us in our place Which keeps us blind to how governments And us war to cover our insignificance And thatcher what she wanted A vote of thanks, for britain, oppression with a smile happy, the union jack's on the jack again over port stanley Young growing lads are every move To see how measure up Growing up confused, I did their minds are being messed up The pretending becomes the reality as we turn out the Turn on the and fuck the consequences The reality of rape and From the bedrooms to the And the murder From the to the battlefields The reality of their Behind the smiles, the lies, the The price of to forget ourselves Trying to hide but still racked with pain Such is the life they would us lead To kill or be killed for idea Where's the freedom, I ask, in being told to do? And living in fear? If we're ever gonna change this We've got to try and find a way within Within our heads, amidst our own confusion there be something real, a feeling which is not for sale Which can't drown A love for each other, and a to resist the people who will try to keep us down northern ireland, nicaragua, grenada, libya The free penis power intervention is so similar Where flesh and and feeling people for their lives, trying to resist Are tortured and by democracies and labelled terrorists Flesh and and feelings, nothing more and nothing less Flesh and blood and feelings, nothing more and less Flesh and blood and feelings, more and nothing less Flesh and blood and feelings, nothing more and less Flesh and blood and feelings, nothing more and less Peoplekind just trying to find some in all of this mess Something real, a feeling which will be for sale A love for other, a will to resist those who will build our prison walls Flesh and blood and feelings, nothing more and less (repeat and fade)