The door open - Across lines, hands are held, golden streamers building in the night. Alone, the are enormous. outside and parasites, deprived of their meat, wait to suck on tiring flesh, Unending that fatten leaders, prisoners of their morality. of death, we can not save ourselves. To is not enough. Yes sir, I Will. When you woke this morning you so rocky-eyed, Blue and white normally, but strange like that in black. It get much better, your voice can get just ripped up shouting in vain, Maybe someone what you say, but you're still on your own at night. You've got to make a noise to understand the silence, Screaming like a jackass, ringing so you can't hear the silence Even when it's there. Like the wind seen the window, Seeing it but not touched by it.
* Words sometimes don't seem to mean Of anyone used more that most. Feelings from the heart that have distorted and mocked, around in the spectacle, the grand social circus.
* Up against the rows of grey who control our lives The things we have to sometimes seem so frail. As plan destruction and gain respectability, We our creativity and are made outcasts.
* We didn't expect to find ourselves playing part, We were concerned ideas, not rock and roll, But we avoid that arena, It's become a part of us if we don't understand it.
* In attempts to they ask why we don't write love songs. is it that we sing then? Our love of life is total, everything we do is an of that, Everything we write is a love song.
* We for alternatives, But the enormous power of the media it so difficult To establish foundations. Their and distortions are so extreme That becomes poisoned and corrupted. We can become media personalities, but it is always on terms. tired of living up to other people's expectations when our own are so much higher. Intelligence seems so dismissed when it doesn't conform to mainstream values. Lennon "They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool", He was right. Social intelligence merely requires and compromise.
* The boundaries are narrower as the State becomes more paranoid. Under authoritarian rule, conformity becomes the security. Fear is a powerful weapon human development. Cowering in our temples of self little chance of change; The State is aware of that. The bomb serves functions. If of the omnipotent God is no more, The nuclear Father will govern his shepherd's crook, Drawing his flock closer to the of the shadow of death.
* Those of us who stand out against the quo Do so all odds. We so closely together Because we have little than ourselves. say that it's just punk rock or that we're just naive anarchists. They hope to discredit us with labels and definitions. Throughout history societies have condemned those who are later as heroes, In so many bourgeois homes Van Gogh's radiate from the walls, Yet he in utter misery, condemned by those very same people. Why is it that the kind and gentle are subjected to violence and How is it that the small and mealy-minded gained so much power? What has taken place that we are governed by fools?
* We've had problems from self-appointed Gods Bishops to MPs. They've tried to ban our saying that we're a threat to decent society. them. I hope we are. What kind of depraved idiot thinks they can silence others by denying them their For fucks sake, who are lobotomists? As if walls had one side. Whispered intimacies not get through, But of anguish know no barriers. But how long do we for? Denied the airwaves, we trust in the wind to carry we say. But sometimes found ourselves shouting into the wind we should have been confiding in each other. It seems so that we are denied the chance of ever being truly free. The inequalities of the peoples of this earth Make freedom at a dream, at worst an insulting privilege. What is there for self-expression and personal development When half the world's population is starving? There are so many things might have been done, But on this spot in the desire to find solution, There's little to see and but the sighing and dying of our world. But for suffering we might been a part of it rather than apart from it.
* the compromises, Brave fronts, deceitful disguises. did you know? What did you care? What did you What did you care? Turning a blind eye to the lies to keep it all together, But sometimes I'm alone like this I wonder whether it's worth it. and socialising. Endless philosophising. What did you know? did you care? What did you know? did you care? agreements, statements of fact, trying to prove we can do it, But sometimes when I'm alone like this I wonder just who can see it. and sacrifices. Cheap tricks, cheaper devices. did you know? What did you care? What did you know? did you care? Holding the vision, but losing our sight, searching solution, But sometimes when I'm alone like I wonder how much it's just institution. What did you know? did you care? What did you What did you care? did you know? What did you care? What did you know? What did you Anarchy's become another word for 'got 10p to spare?' What did you What did you care? Another way of 'I'm O.K., sod you out there'. What did you know? What did you care? Another token tantrum to cover up the fear. What did you know? What did you Another institution, another cross to bear. did you know? What did you care? etc. etc.
* Anything and everything can be so institutionalised, A poor parody of itself. contained by itself. There's no in just mouthing the words. The token tantrums aren't enough, Nor is and weed and the Positive Creed. clubs where the various tribes congratulate each other for doing fuck all Will achieve but the strengthening of the status quo. Punk has another rock and roll elite, Cheap Rotten imitations thinking they'll change their world With hair and predictable gestures. Nouveau wankers. a thousand empty stages waiting for their empty performances, A thousand empty waiting for their empty stances. How many times must we hear versions of Feeding of the 5000 By jerks whose fuck off to the system has been one off the wrist? It's the of the 5 Knuckle Shuffle. * If there was no government, wouldn't be chaos Everybody running round, setting petrol off? And if there was no police force, tell me you'd do If thirty thousand rioters came running after And who would clean the sewers? mend my television? people lay about without some supervision? Who'd drive the fire engines? fix my video? If there were no prisons, well, where would go? And if I told you to Fxxk Off? What if no army to stop a big invasion? Who'd clean the bogs and sweep the floors? have all immigration. Who'd pull the pint at the local pub? Where'd I get my Who'd out my dustbins? Would I still get plastic bags? If there were no hospitals, and no too, If I'd broken both my legs, would I run to? If there's no medication, if there no nurses, people die a lot? And who would drive the hearses? And what if I told you to Off? If there were no butchers shops, what people eat? have everybody starving if they didn't get their meat. If there was no water, would people drink? Who'd flush away the you-know-what? But of course never stink. What about the Who'd teach them in the schools? Who'd make the beggers keep in line? Learn all the rules? Who's tell us windows? When to take down doors? Tell us make a of tea and survive the holocaust? * The rock and swindler says it's O.K. to plunder, So the pirates set sail to rape any ethnic they can plug a mike to. The imperialists rub their in glee As the slave-boy hunts out in the garbage cans. Is it any wonder there was such sickening celebration over the Force so called radicals work hand in hand with the ruling elite? Yesterday those wily creeps rejected the quo, they smarm and charm passageways to its very heart. Where's the individual in all that? the hope and aspiration? Identities become corporations, Social egos and moulds, Scholars of ad-man's dreams. Prescribed Must we all down aspirins and shine borrowed tans? Are we really so dumb, so cowered into not only are we prepared to eat shit We're also prepared to say thanks for the Why we accept servility as a bargain for dignity? Why should we passively death as a bargain for living? Why accept this robbery of Why accept this pillage? For Christ's sake take up bed and walk. Let the see end the deaf hear. The rights of the are dependent upon You realising right as an individual. People are so easily deluded thinking they've instrumented choice Where in reality nothing but passive observers. Passive do nothing but passively observe, soak up creativity and say "Wow, that's me!", Passively soak up and say "Oh no, not us, not me". There are who strive for value and meaning; Who for reason and purpose; Their efforts are negated by the observers. * They spend before the T.V. set so burned out, Is it any wonder they've all sense of vision and possibility? What chance anyone have when all the spaces are filled? breakfast teas to the sound of Space Invaders. * Television is Nuremberg. to its authority, they become it. I've seen four old children conforming to media roles. Main-lining the gross theatre that become their lives. The has so dampened people's anger. The population is mesmerised by the screen And the streets, the politics of reality were once created, Are at night and the rulers sleep secure. They are under no as long as the people are sedated. Those who head-aches from excessive intake of electrons are prescribed valium, Or pay for a fix at the pub where men to piss up the wall And the stench of urine well into the next pint. * Entertainment is designed to gloss over real And often those who profess dissent only add to the deception. Words are banded about, but at the whim of the puppeteer. sloganeering is just another Punch and Judy show. * Any that we receive concerning the real world is carefully controlled, Why else would fiction such licence? We are allowed to see theatrical deaths, But when the real started on the Falklands censors prevented us from seeing them. We were the excuse of 'National Security' By the lying shits who interested only in saving their political skins. It matter a fuck to them how many died As long as popularity ratings didn't suffer, For that alone we were shielded from the truth. the real violence is kept from us We are exposed to pantomimes of death and destruction. Those in power are rightly that if we had access to the real facts We would cease to be simply observers. Media of Viet Nam created massive dissent in the U.S.A. Thatcher's government was aware of when, embarking on the Falkland charade, They refused press cards to anyone who they knew not support their line. Those who did travel to the found their reports dramatically cut down. Meanwhile, at home, we were fed of Britain's 'glorious war'. The truth that is now filtering out paints a very picture. * often been said that truth is the first casualty of war, It is, but the could be said of life. From birth we are and beaten into submission By family, church, and state. From then on we're game for the powermongers. Like pathetic circus we hunt out praise Or, our true nature finds its way to the surface We hide in the darkness, our between our legs. At all we are prevented from realising our own potential. We are conditioned being passive observers. If the offers war, We have been conditioned to accept it. War can only exist passive acceptance. It is nothing but a demonstration of the of human will. * If the clown peace We will been conditioned to accept that too, But can not and will not be maintained through passive acceptance. will require constant demonstrations of personal strength, Constant effort, constant work, Reappraisal, and devotion. Which of those qualities you taught in schoolroom? Whereas war simply requires the as cannon-fodder, Peace requires individuals to realise own potential, The odds are hopelessly because the State deliberately destroys human will. * Passive observers offer but decay. The flowerbeds weeding, the roses need cutting back before winter. from sedation, released from bondage, People would demonstrate own strength, But the powerful elite are of this And already have on those who they regard as subversives. It is easy for them to single out and us And still for us simply not to bother. * It is impossible to gauge the effect that for peace may be having, The are skilled at concealing dissatisfaction. For so people have been saying "No more war", But for all those demands has changed. Seeing that the Peace Movement was in strength, appointed Heseltine as Minister of Defence. One specific part of his job is to CND, is the nature of Conservative democraty. * As we are too easily forced back into tokenism, Making hollow against the wheels of the juggernaut. The is delicate. The spaces have always been created by the and caring, To be later filled by and egotists. We can try to fill those spaces with the of our love. Gandhi called it Ahimsa. The Greenham call it the 'Politics of Whimsy', But it doesn't end there, is it enough. Gandhi played a major role in liberating India from rule, But conditions in India are still for the ordinary people. Limiting Greenham Peace to women only is a sensible political ploy, But if it is a of sexual exclusivity it is a sham. Aren't we seeking to destroy all forms of our own oppression give us the right to oppress others? Unless we are prepared to all oppression, We stand guilty of direct to it. * The neo-fascist plunder our And we resist them on every level. As we have few right with which to oppose them, But on our own, together, we them. They have law and those who impose it. We only ourselves and each other. have their order and those who impose it. We only have and each other. It is easy to those who seek peace as dreamers, But isn't our culture built on past dreams? It is essential our dreams become a reality Or will cease to be one. * Harrods boast that it can supply any whim that its clients might express, Well let supply me an Exocet missile and a starving Third World child And tell them the politics of choice. Equality enter into the ghettos of wealth. Beneath the protective sheath of economy The right, rich and get even richer And they, in turn, support her barbaric policies at home and overseas. The war cost Britain over sixteen thousand million pounds - in whose pocket? * Throughout the world of people are employed making armaments, Don't they realise that it's ordinary people like themselves who'll suffer the of their filthy labour? * The obscene with their obscene wealth Applaud the carnage from grandstand. It's as if they were at Ascot laying their Five to one on the Horsemen. They believe that money can buy out of the responsibility That they have for the that they bleed dry. are the true pornographers The real stylists in perversion. Rich tarts sit dumbly by Watching their fortunes and fall In the neatly pressed trousers of the City. Debutante whores in rich castles. * The ruling elite with puppet figurehead Queen the Second, Regina Virgina, about on the million of bodies That they have sacrificed to gain position. Who are these leaders but those who made violence pay? Who are they but the inheritors of their greed and theft? Their blood stained flags are to our future, remnant of our individual rights. These are common murderers and thieves, But we bow before them. For how long will the masses be so manipulated by God, Queen and Country? * For fucks sake are we in all this? given life yet we court death. For Christ's sake how long? How long, oh Lord, how Still we lay prostrate a stylised figure on a crucifix. As if the stone fool be resurrected. We are to bargain our lives for his And join him in the ugliness of Christian guilt. He hangs as a remainder of our own subjugation. Let it be known that he is Christ, Those who dare him shall suffer thus. settlement is spiked with that stupid image, Each conscience nailed to diet of corruption. * Military are bathed in those gory tales. Tired Marines, to fuck and sleep, are blessed in his name. Pious virgins in desire in worship before the myth. In of their own death, they await his coming. Jesus have mercy on me. Sweet Jesus, they his agony. Sweet Jesus, they his misery. Fuck his deity. * Over the world's population is starving, Crucified by the of landowners, Helpless against the of priorities Practiced by the major powers who, if wanted to, could help. Every minute of the day millions upon of pounds Are on the machinery of war. If only a half of that was on the machinery of peace, There be no more starvation on this planet. Yet governments pay no heed to the of suffering, They perhaps make token to appease their consciences, But no improvements are made Because to ensure control the superpowers need to the imbalance. Natives are in their homelands By governments out new possessions. Most of the wealth of the so called nations Has been gained at the expense of the Third From whom natural resources, mineral and human, Have unscrupulously exploited. Peoples' pride and dignity is in Napalm And flame-throwers. The poor and are raped and tormented By leaders who use their not to assist, but to oppress. At the of a gloved hand people can, and do, Send men to their death, But not before too have fallen from their bayonets and guns. Such armies are invariably called keeping forces'. The is as appalling as it is obvious. The wealthy, educated, and secure the lives of those less fortunate a complete misery. Million upon of people are dying from malnutrition Because, to stabilise economies, governments destroy food rather than giving it to the needy. * "Let them eat cake" Marie Antoinette As she wiped the blood from her lips. * "Proud to be British" said Margaret As she wiped the blood from her hands. * The ruling elite have no concept of what it is to want, Yet it is who are directly responsible. In a world where there are who can't afford a crust of bread, These arrogant scabs drive around in and Rolls Royces. Perhaps it amuses them to rub shit the faces of the poor, But there'll come a time when such overt displays of Will not be by the people in the street. In a sane society wealth and would not be an asset. * A few years ago a was on the radio Saying that no one in the UK from want. Next day I saw an old man for a handful of coal; His was dying of cold and he was penniless. Maybe in the morning, as the politician sipped tea, She lay cold and dead before the grate. year thousand of people die of hypothermia, Too hungry, too cold, too poor to alive. * At times of national crisis always the poor who suffer. "Back Britain" told As the rich get and the poor get poorer. At times of crisis it's the same story. "Back Britain" told As the get richer and the poor get killed. In the event of a crisis, The rich will to private bunkers with their wealth and possessions. * The injustice of is sanctioned by the church. its tradition of finance from the gentry The church has always been To ensure that its remains servile. "Repent ye sinners or be devoured in the of hell." Those very same flames that their enemies in countless religious wars. * So often the church has hand in hand with the military Casting its blessings upon the writhing of the battlefield. Each stab of is God's word. Each crash of steel is word. torn limb and splash of blood is God's word. For he so loved the world he gave our begotten sons. Each grave and sodding death is God's word. For he so loved the world he our only begotten sons. For he so loved the world he our only begotten sons. * In Christian societies executions are by representatives of the church. Goggle-eyed before the gallows, the chair and the gas-chamber administer their Christ's blessing. In poison is injected into the blood-stream. Another dies, jacked up by the state. glorious advance for civilisation. One step for man. One giant for mankind. For he so the world. He gave us his begotten son And we are expected so to do. For he so the world. * Violent, hypocrisy. How is anyone supposed to deal these contradictions, Confusions and lies? defy reason. Oh yes, you can laugh at the absurdity, Satirise the obscenity, but the hysteria soon wears And the tears wear a complexion. Humour can diversion, But it dilutes real And nothing confronted. We are by dangerous mad-people, What's funny about for fucks sake? The is daily threatened with annihilation, Is that really something to be The world is under threat. Against background of fear We struggle to our own authority. being bludgeoned into conformity We struggle to our inner selves. Of course I uncomfortable when I'm laughed at in the streets, But I don't to be one of them. I to be an outsider, At the same time I'd like to in out of the cold. * Urgency personal fears. the scenario of total destruction We demand a sanity that save the world. alone excludes us from the mainstream of thought. History no solutions, from Mao or Stalin, Hitler or Marx Simply the oppression. I'm of political experts, of 'if onlys'. They always been the same people, Grey visionless Who would have us all their death. is simply a justification for oppression, Written by who practice it. It is being changed and rewritten To to the requirements of the ruling elite. A tempest of convenience that blasts the blistered bodies of the dead. We receive at best filtered truths. of what we see and hear is lies. * The War was rewritten as it happened. It was not a glorious for the British spirit, Nor an defeat of a fascist dictator. It was a callous and savage piece of Designed to cover up horrific problems. At a time a peaceful settlement was a possibility, Thatcher ordered the sinking of the General Belgrado over three hundred men And mutilating many more. She did this her political neck required bloodshed To her wisdom in releasing the Task Force. The history books not document her as a cold-blooded murderer. * I'm of the dull rationalisation of the politicians. Weighed down with sums and inadequacies I feel anger and bellied hatred for them. How can anyone so distorted? How can anyone be so far from real human I only disgust for their twisted minds. How can peace be achieved through of violence? What kind of hope is in that strait-jacket? * The authority of those who us Is supported, maintained and By those who are the most oppressed; Those who, because they have no alternative, are in to the rulers. * How can I anger towards the squaddy? Weighed down with his guns and I can feel pity and bellied compassion. How can be so distorted? How can anyone be so far from real values? I can only feel pity for his mind. How can freedom be if the poor fight to uphold The of those who directly oppress them? * We look through one eye hoping the won't see, That way we only deal with a half of it. Like ostriches, oblivious, Not we are, but because we choose to be. Most people see through the But are too to admit it. It's so easier to be the passive observer. How much longer can people afford to just sit by like All the are there. unemployment, Recession, depression. But who's Who cares? Tamely the population is being led down the road to bondage. is daily strengthening its powers. Those who against it are ridiculed, or abused and punished. Those in power are cynical. Rather than analysing the seriousness of the simply strengthen the army and police to combat it They are for the inevitable response. It happened in Brixton, and Moss Side. It happens daily in Ireland. Under Thatcher's there has been massive increases in police brutality. In London shot down a man Only to find it was the person. We regret to you. Regret to inform you. Regret to inform you. We to inform you That today another was shot in the back of the head. We to inform you. Regret to inform you, That another Christ, not yet ten years old, was today, By agents of Her Government, with a plastic bullet. They say plastic bullets were designed not to kill, do. I say that beings were not designed to kill, not us, not me; We do. We to inform you. * 1984 is a book the positive danger of totalitarianism, Under Thatcher's unfeeling the scenario is one year early. With the mechanism of the pin ball arcade We're flicked around as numbers by the computers. Software in the hardware. and filed. We no access to the information that they have stored on us. alter egos, print-out portraits. We are another. As individuals within that mechanical we are arbitrary, only for what can be taken from us. Our future is of no to the mega-corporations Who determine the of our economic well-being. Thatcher's policies massive unemployment Which makes her to 'support our boys' nothing but a fucking insult. When they were eight thousand miles dying for her arrogance She fabricated what was a complete of compassion. they're at home, jobless on the streets, She doesn't a fuck for them. Self determination and enterprise are her big lines, But how much of that does she offer to others In her contemptible use of She was prepared to risk peace that it was for the self determination of the Falklanders, Those same people who over a year ago She was prepared to abandon a thought. And now, for all her talk, are forced to live in a fortress waiting for further hostilities. Thatcher has recently sanctioned a of one hundred million pounds to Argentina that it was to stabilise world economy. The purchase of further Exocets and the development of nuclear Should do much for world economy, but little for world security. Just the fuck was all that bloodshed for? * Thatcher has away British self-determination in one single stroke. She has agreed to install deadly cruise missiles on British Over which the Americans have control. The American military presence is designed To nuclear war with Russia to the 'European Theatre'. we are sold the wicked lie of protection and deterrence. American war planners have repeatedly stated that intend To fight the Third World War on European Cruise missiles greatly increase the danger of happening. Designed to avoid radar by skimming the earth's surface, Cruise are seen as the ideal 'first strike weapon', They also a massive response that would make Britain into a nuclear desert. naivety is astounding. The experts seriously believe That they will be able to war to the 'theatre'. In this show the world will be the stage, be no encore. * Thatcher and her cronies of 'limited tactical response' And 'executive action' causing damage'. These terms are from their American counterparts And are to mask the ugly reality that they describe. In everyday 'collateral damage' simply means civilian deaths. In the event of attack on Britain that would amount to thirty-eight million people. Is it any that these crazy psychotics jargon to assist them in their studied madness? Every year hundreds of innocent people die horrific deaths As a result of the bombs dropped on and Nagasaki. It is probably an all out nuclear war Would destroy all on planet Earth. * We are not fantasy, Nor doom. We are talking of an existing The one that we allow to exist us. * Defence Secretary Heseltine disputes the kind of information that we Claiming that it has 'no in fact'. There are no words to the utter contempt we feel for people of his kind. They sit in their seats of Distorting and perverting all decency. How can dare be so blatant? How can they be so hypocritical? Who is Heseltine with his corrupt lies? Who is this Thatcher with her arrogant These hideous mutants their shadows Across all is worthwhile and good. * Cruise missile will be installed because has created some kind of deal with Reagan. We will never know the details of that arrangement. It will almost certainly involve some of economic juggling act, The massive corporations political thumbscrews On U.S. in Britain. Russian tanks in Afghanistan are Compared with the power of American capital in the UK. the nature of that deal is, It has made Britain America's front line, The fifty-third State, with no of citizenship. To many people might not matter, Fed birth on American propaganda and Hollywood trash, The levels are low. As long as we accept American domination We can no real advance. We are being sold the line. * To many people the and warheads might not matter. To many people nuclear is too huge to contemplate, Yet for all the reality looms constantly in nightmares. In the nuclear we are expected to accept those nightmares. Is this really all we can hope for as life? Is this really all that we can hope for as Maybe our lives don't matter much, But why impose our on future generations? Or is it perhaps that you no believe that there will be future generations? In passive acceptance of it You already allowed the holocaust to happen. The is ended. * We are not fantasy, Nor doom. We are talking of an reality, The one we allow to exist around us. * The nuclear hardware in the last three decades Will pollute the Earth for of years. A nuclear war will it. Is that why the trees blossom? You are and corrupting. In condemning to the nuclear nightmare Are you willing to the burning of tomorrow's unborn? They know nothing of sorrow. * Suffer little children to unto me. Suffer little to come unto me. Suffer little to come unto me. little children to come unto me. * In your refusal to act against these hideous You are guilty of the gutless passive observer. Are you so inhuman that you let this happen? Just a helpless bystander waving your flag in acceptance? Take up your and see. Take up ears and hear. Take up your and think. up your life and act. * It is up to us all as citizens of Earth To towards the downfall of the powerful elite. Their rule has created suffering. Their insanity precludes all and compassion, lie, trick and manipulate. They are the in the flesh of decency, The vultures that at the bones of hope, The of famine, war, pestilence, and death. * They be stopped. Why should people die for insanity? Why should starve for their insanity? Why should people the spitefulness of their greed? We must not be intimidated by the authority that appear to have. We must be prepared to oppose them on level, To fight back in the knowledge that if we We have failed in our responsibility to life itself. It has before That the powerless risen against the oppressor to be beaten back. But there been cases where they have succeeded. is a just cause, It is up to one of us, alone, to do our best. We must learn to our fears. We must that the strength that they have Is the strength we give them. It is you, the observer who has given them this power. You are being and abused And will be discarded as soon as they've bled what they from you. You must learn to live with your own conscience, own morality, own decision, own self. You can do it. is no authority but yourself. * One squaddy, horrifically burnt in the War, Was approached by Charles during a presentation. "Get well soon" said the Prince, to witch the replied, "Yes Sir, I will".