Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Bloody Revolutions, artist - Crass.
Date of issue: 01.10.2020
Song language: English
Bloody Revolutions |
You talk about your revolution, well, that’s fine |
But what are you going to be doing come the time? |
Are you going to be the big man with the tommy-gun? |
Will you talk of freedom when the blood begins to run? |
Well, freedom has no value if violence is the price |
Don’t want your revolution, I want anarchy and peace |
You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool |
You speak of liberation and when the people rule |
Well ain’t it people rule right now, what difference would there be? |
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me |
But what about those people who don’t want your new restrictions? |
Those that disagree with you and have their own convictions? |
You say they’ve got it wrong because they don’t agree with you |
So when the revolution comes you’ll have to run them through |
You say that revolution will bring freedom for us all |
Well freedom just ain’t freedom when your back’s against the wall |
You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool |
You speak of liberation and when the people rule |
Well ain’t it people rule right now, what difference would there be? |
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me |
Will you indoctrinate the masses to serve your new regime? |
And simply do away with those whose views are too extreme? |
Transportation details could be left to British rail |
Where Zyklon B succeeded, North Sea Gas will fail |
It’s just the same old story of man destroying man |
We’ve got to look for other answers to the problems of this land |
You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool |
You speak of liberation and when the people rule |
Well ain’t it people rule right now, what difference would there be? |
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me |
Vive la revolution, people of the world unite |
Stand up men of courage, it’s your job to fight |
It all seems very easy, this revolution game |
But when you start to really play things won’t be quite the same |
Your intellectual theories on how it’s going to be |
Don’t seem to take into account the true reality |
Cos the truth of what you’re saying, as you sit there sipping beer |
Is pain and death and suffering, but of course you wouldn’t care |
You’re far too much of a man for that, if Mao did it so can you |
What’s the freedom of us all against the suffering of the few? |
That’s the kind of self-deception that killed ten million jews |
Just the same false logic that all power-mongers use |
So don’t think you can fool me with your political tricks |
Political right, political left, you can keep your politics |
Government is government and all government is force |
Left or right, right or left, it takes the same old course |
Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law |
The seizure of that power is all your revolution’s for |
You romanticise your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao |
Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression now |
Nothing changed for all the death, that their ideas created |
It’s just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren’t clearly stated |
Nothing’s really different cos all government’s the same |
They can call it freedom, but slavery is the game |
Nothing changed for all the death, that their ideas created |
It’s just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren’t clearly stated |
Nothing’s really different cos all government’s the same |
They can call it freedom, but slavery is the game |
There’s nothing that you offer but a dream of last years hero |
The truth of revolution, brother… is year zero |