Bloody Revolutions Lyrics - Best Before 1984 - Crass

"Bloody Revolution" 

by Crass originally 

recorded 1980 

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 anarachy and peace 

Chorus: You talk of over throwing power with violence as your tool 

You speak of liberation and when the people rule 

Well ain't it people rule right now, what differnce 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 thay've got it wrong becuase they don't agree with you 

So when the recolution comes you'll have to run them through 

Yet you say that revoution will bring freedom for us all 

Well freedom just ain't freedom when your back's against the wall 

Chorus 

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 sucessed, 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 

Chorus 

Vive la revolution, people of the world unite 

Stand up of courage, it's your job to fight 

It all seems very easy, this revolution game 

But when you start to really play thing won't be quite the same 

Your intellectual theories on how it's going to be 

Don't seem to take into accoutn 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 fredom of us all agaist the suffering of a few? 

That's the kind of self-deception that killed ten million jews 

Just the same false logic that all power-mogers use 

So don't think you can fool me wiht your political tricks 

Bovernment is government and all government is force 

Left of right, right or left, it takes the same old course 

Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law 

The seizre of that power is all your revolution's for 

You romanticise your heroes, qutoe from Marx and Mao 

Well thir ideas of freedom are just oppression now 

Nothing's 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 nothgin that you offer but a dream of last years hero 

The truth of revolution, bother..................... is year zero