Margaret thatcher lives in ronald reagan's She's been there for eight years up her plan To make the uk like big usa Where selfmade men run everything and this is what say "once a time, we had an idea Mr big thought it was a damn idea Together we made the 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 designed who know just what to do He made it and simple, red, white, and blue" Red is the blood of the indians is anglo-american apartheid Blue is the "gee, I'll die for my country" made it all possible Our history, made from other people's Our history, on other people's poverty A present, the world into which we born I say, I say, I say, what's the biggest in the world today? It's the myth that men are big, that us lads The that we've got a rocket down our pants When I was ten old I was bought and sold On films, tv, books, and comics pushing about mr. big it! "to be 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 gotta use it!" Mr big's the bigger it is the more power it Mr. big's shiny nuclear 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 didn't Now look at me on the front of record Admittedly it's not But even allowing for exaggeration there's no with This microphone, stallone Electric guitars, cars flynn, jimmy hill's chin Stars and and rubber pipes F-111 and the contras office tower penis power Muscles and cigarettes Ronald reagan's smile missiles Fourteen, fifteen, on sixteen No growth down if you know what I mean I kept it very quiet, I a lot embarrassed I didn't like going in public At school I showers The separatism of an all-boys school I couldn't relate to girls, there were different I just wanted to kiss girls, put my hand up their They did right not to like it, 'cause women are not objects Like with anything else which we keep to We end up it out on somebody else It a big thing without being big at all I very inadequate, confused, and small We hide our feelings, our flesh and our putting out mr. tough To be larger than life, than just flesh and blood Like the at shool, at gigs and in pubs We pretend it doesn't hurt as we beat each up In our confusion we want to be more than and blood Like the good guys on tv, we pretend to have no It's easier to avoid the emotional So when it comes to our lives we do not see who we're Like the good guys on tv we don't know our own All I was demystification And it's as as this We're flesh and and feelings, nothing more and nothing less Flesh and blood and feelings, nothing more and nothing and blood and feelings, nothing more and nothing less Flesh and blood and feelings, nothing and nothing less I say, I say, I say, what's the biggest idea in the world Us losing of feeling reality, instead, putting our faith in democracy died in 1965, but God and country survived As a lad I was of it, it took me twenty years to see through it The state freedom keeps us in our place Which keeps us to how governments operate And gives us war to cover our And gives what she wanted A vote of thanks, victory for britain, with a smile Everybody's happy, the union jack's on the jack again port stanley Young growing lads are watching move To see how measure up Growing up confused, I did their minds are being messed up The becomes the reality as we turn out the lights Turn on the power and fuck the The reality of and violence From the bedrooms to the And the murder From the to the battlefields The reality of freedom the smiles, the lies, the celebrations The price of trying to forget Trying to hide but still racked with pain Such is the life they would us lead To or be killed for their idea the freedom, I ask, in being told what to do? And living in fear? If we're gonna change this thing We've got to try and find a way from Within our heads, amidst our own confusion there must be real, a feeling which is not for sale Which they drown A love for each other, and a to resist the people who will try to keep us down Like northern ireland, nicaragua, grenada, The free world penis intervention is so similar Where flesh and blood and people for their lives, trying to resist Are tortured and by democracies and labelled terrorists Flesh and blood and feelings, more and nothing less Flesh and blood and feelings, nothing more and nothing Flesh and and feelings, nothing more and nothing less Flesh and blood and feelings, nothing and nothing less Flesh and blood and feelings, more and nothing less Peoplekind just trying to find sense in all of this mess Something real, a feeling which never be for sale A for each other, a will to resist those who will build our prison walls Flesh and blood and feelings, more and nothing less (repeat and fade)