I Know There Is Love Lyrics - Christ The Album - Crass

Think I was born on this wretched earth for you to govern and kill? 

In your stinking factories and offices with your stupid systems and skills? 

Think I've got nothing better to do than to grovel in the shit and the crap? 

Asking for the bread and home that's mine and waiting for a pat on the back? 

Think I've got nothing better to do than to live in the lie that you give? 

Learn the sweet morals, the lessons, the games 

And praise god for the fact that I live? 

You took me and made me a MAN by making me strong, the power of this land 

You took a woman and taught her she's less 

A slave to the strong no more than a guest 

You taught me to love, find a mate and to take 

A woman to serve but your love is just rape 

You leave me my children to hold and distort 

To bind with your rules of normality til caught 

I give them the food that you sell in the shops 

I'm told is has goodness when it's only the slops 

You've taken my health with your shitty benevolence 

You've take my dignity with your dole queue dependence 

You taught me to steal when I wanted to share 

To take for myself and not even care 

You've stifled my vision with oppressive authority 

Dreams and the hopes nearly fade to strangle me 

Gave me confusion until I had learnt 

To obey all the orders and never get burnt 

I shout in the streets and you take my voice 

This sham of democracy leaves no choice 

Take my eyes 'til there's nothing to see 

Except abuse and destruction, no chance to be free 

Taken my thinking, my means of survival 

Thrust in my hand your gun and your bible 

Told me to kill for the lord up above 

You've given me hate when I KNOW THERE IS LOVE 

Told me to kill for the lord up above 

You've given me hate when I KNOW THERE IS LOVE