Big A Little A Lyrics - You'll Ruin It For Everyone - Crass

"Big A Little A" 

by Crass originally recorded 

in 1980. 

Big A little A bouncing B 

The sytem might have got you but it won't get me 

1 2 3 4 

Chorus: 

External control are you gonna let them get you? 

Do you wanna be a prisorner in the boundaries they set you? 

You say you want to be yourself 

By christ do you think they'll let you? 

The're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you 

Hello, hello, hello, this is the Lord God, can you hear? 

Hellfire and damnation's what I've got for you down there 

On earth I have ambassadors. archbishop. vicar. pope 

We'll blind you with morality, you'd best abandon any hope, 

We're telling you you'b better pray cos you were born in sin 

Right from the start we'll build a cell and then we'll lock you in 

We sit in holy judgement dondemning those that stray 

We offer our forgiveness, but first we'll make you pay 

Chorus 

Hello. hell. hell, now here's a message from your queen 

As figurehead of the status qui I set the social scene 

I'm most concerned about my people, I want to give them peace 

So I'm making sure they stay in line with my army and police 

My prisons and my mental homes have ever open doors 

For those amongst my subhects who dare to ask for more 

Unrulyness and disrepect are things I can't allow 

So I'll see the peasants grovel in they frefuse to bow. 

Chorus 

Introducing the Prime Sinister, she's a mother to us all 

Like the dtch boy's finger in the dyke her arse is in the wall 

Holding back the future waiting for the seas to part 

If Moses did it with his faith, she;ll do it with an army 

Who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there 

Gaurding national heritage no matter what or where 

Palaces for kings and gueens, amnsions for the rich 

Protection for the walthy, defence of pribige 

They've learnt the ropes in Ireland, engaged in cibil war 

Fighting for the ruling classes in their battle agaisnt the poor 

Great Britain? Future? bollocks, you'd better look begind 

Round every other corner stands P.C. 1984 

Guardian of the future, he'll implement the law 

Big brothers system's always there with his beady eyes on you 

From God to local bobby, in home and street and school 

They've got you name and number while you've just got their rule 

We've got to look for methods to undermine those powers 

It's time to chage the tables. the future must be ours. 

BE exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do 

I am he and she is she but you're the only you 

No one else has got your eyes, can see the things you see 

It's up to you to change you life and my life's up to me 

The problems that you suffer from are problems that you make 

The shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to take 

If you don't like the life you life, change it now it's yours 

Nothing has effect if you don't recognise the cause 

If the programmes's not the one you want, get up, turn off the set 

It's only you that can decide what life you're gonna get 

If you don't like religion you can be the antichrist 

If your tired of politics you can be an anarchist 

But no on ever changed the church by pulling down the steeple 

And you'll never change the syustem by bombing number ten 

Systems just aren't made of bricks they're most made of people 

You may send then into hiding, but they'll be back again 

If you don't like the rules they make, regust to play their game 

If you don't want to be a numver, don't give them your name 

If you don't wnat to be caught out, refuse to hear their question 

Silence is a virtue, use it for your own protection 

They'll try to make you play their game,refuse to show your face 

Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do 

I am he and she is she but you're the only you.