Banned From The Roxy Lyrics - Christ The Album - Crass

Banned from the Roxy...Ok 

I never much liked playing there anyway 

Said they only wanted well behaved boys 

Do they think guitars and microphones are just fucking toys? 

Fuck 'em, chosen to make my stand 

Against what I feel is wrong with this land 

Just sit there on their overfed arses 

Feeding off the sweat of less fortunate classes 

Keep their fucking power cos their finger's on the button 

Got control and won't let it be forgotten 

Truth of their reality is at the wrong end of a gun 

Proof of that is Belfast and that's no fucking fun 

Seeing the squaddy lying in the front yard 

Seeing the machine guns resting on the fence 

Finding the entrance to your own front door is barred 

Got the fucking nerve to call it defence 

Seems their defence is a just the threat of strength 

Protection for the privileged at any length 

Government protecting their profits from the poor 

Rich and the fortunate chaining up the door 

Afraid that the people may ask for a little more 

Than the shit they get, shit they get, shit they get, 

Shit they get, shit they get, shit they get, 

Shit they get, shit they get, 

DEFENCE? SHIT, IT'S NOTHING LESS THAN WAR 

AND NO ONE BUT THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK IT'S FOR 

Oh yes they say it's defence, say it's decency 

Mai Lai, Hiroshima, know what I mean? 

Same fucking lies with depressing frequency 

They say "We had to do it to keep our lives clean" 

Whose life? Whose fucking life? 

Who the fuck are they talking to? 

Whose life? Whose fucking life? 

I'll tell you one thing, it ain't me and you 

And their systems, christ, they're everywhere 

School, army, church, the corporation deal 

Fucked up reality based on fear 

Fucking conspiracy to stop you feeling real 

Well they ain't got me, 

I'd say they're fucking wrong 

I ain't quite ready with my gun 

But I've got me song 

Banned from the Roxy, Ok 

Never much like playing there anyways 

GUNS