Banned From The Roxy Lyrics - 12 Crass Songs - Jeffrey Lewis

Banned from the Roxy... Ok 

I never much liked playing there anyway 

They said they only wanted well behaved boys 

Do they think guitars and microphones are just toys? 

Well, i've chosen to make my stand 

Against what I feel is wrong with this land 

They just sit there on their overfed asses 

Feeding off the sweat of less fortunate classes 

They keep their power cos their finger's on the button 

They got control and won't let it be forgotten 

The truth of their reality is at the end of a gun 

The proof is all in history and is no fun 

Seeing the army in your front yard 

Seeing the machine guns resting on the fence 

finding the entrance to your door is bared 

and they got the nerve to call back defence 

Seems their defence is a just the threat of strength 

Protection for the privileged at any length 

The government protecting their profits from the poor 

The rich and the fortunate chaining up the door 

Afraid that the people may ask for a little bit more 

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

the shit they get. 

defence it's nothing less than war 

and no one but the government knows what it's for 

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

Mai Lai, Hiroshima, know what I mean? 

The same lies with depressing frequency 

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

Well whose life? Who are they talking to? 

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 

Our reality based on fear 

A conspiracy to stop you feeling real 

But they're wrong 

I'd say they're wrong 

I swear they're wrong 

I know they're wrong 

I ain't quite ready with my gun 

But we've always got our song 

So i've been 

Banned from the Roxy, Ok 

Never much like playing there anyways