Poison In A Pretty Pill Lyrics - You'll Ruin It For Everyone - Crass

Your tactile eyes running over glossy paper 

Printed on with tactile lies of glaze and gauze 

They say "forget yourself, adorn with this disguise" 

This womanhood of smooth and tampered whores 

Let me warn you of their cold sensitivity 

They'll have you gathered in a trap of glass 

Is your reflection all the you will recognise? 

That cruel lie will stare you in the face 

Wrapped up in a haze and flow of bridal gown 

They tell your lover he must hold a gun 

You're the pornographic reassurance he's a man 

They deal with flesh, incarcerate with rags 

Red lips, shimmer-silk and body-bags 

Hairless legs against the blistered napalm burn 

I want to rape the substance of your downy hair 

In that mist a gutted child fights for air 

Against the fragile, mashed and sweaty wound 

Your facile beauty has an outrageous sound 

Like a glamour billboard on a battlefield 

At least the blood red poppy was of natures will 

That flower perfecting by the barbed wire fence 

Must be insulted by your scented poor pretence 

Just as I, who finds it hard to touch you now 

You traumatise my love with needle doubts 

I want so gently to remove your mask 

It's hard enough to find water here 

In this barrenness of dishonesty and fear 

Without you accepting poison in a pretty pill 

Your bondages of silk robes and lace 

Are the bandages on a bullet punctured corpse 

The layers of precious imitation worn 

Are the layers of history that suffocates the unborn