Crass - Smother Love

Crass - Smother Love, from Penis Envy.

Smother Love.
The true romance is the ideal repression, that you seek,
That you dream of, that you look for in the streets,
That you find in the magazines, the cinema, the glossy shops,
And the music spins you round and round looking for the props.
The silken robe, the perfect little ring,
Will gives you the illusion when it doesn't mean a thing,
Step outside into the street and staring from the wall
Is perfection of the happiness that makes you feel so small.
Romance, can you dance? D'you fit the right description?
Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you want me for your own?
Do you love me? Say you need me, say you know that I'm the one,
Tell me I'm your everything, let us build a home.
We can build a house for us, with little ones fellow,
The proof of our normality that justifies tomorrow.
Romance, romance. Do you love me? Say you do,
We can leave the world behind and make it just for two.

Love don't make the world go round, it holds it right in place,
Keeps us thinking love's too pure to see another face.
Love's another skin-trap, another social weapon,
Another way to make men slaves and women at their beckon.
Love's another sterile gift, another shit condition,
That keeps us seeing just the one and others not existing.
Woman is a holy myth, a gift of mans expression,
She's sweet, defenceless, golden-eyed, a gift of gods repression.
If we didn't have these codes for love, of tokens and positions,
We'd find ourselves as lovers still, not tokens of possessions.
It's a natural, it's a romance, without the power and greed,
We can fight to lift the cover if you want to sow and seed.
Do you love me? Do you? Do you? Don't you see they aim to smother
The actual possibilities of seeing all the others?
Do you love me? Do you? Do you? Don't you see they aim to smother
The actual possibilities of seeing all the others?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• crass
• anarchist
• punk
• anarchism
• feminism

[caillou1966]

Will somebody please put up Big A Little A

[AnarchoAlan]

I'm half way through making a video for this, it should be ready over the next few days.

[DannyDiplo]

I would have thought Berkertex Bribe would have fitted the video better! Anyway, nice to hear this again, been ages...

[AnarchoAlan]

As it is a similar type of song i have used similar footage to my video for berketex bribe it can be found on my channel

[sapphirerose666]

This is powerful punk music

[sapphirerose666]

These lyrics are powerful , they really hit the nail on the donkey when it comes to women's issues

[jrom78]

@sapphirerose666 And men's issues; I think we are all victims of "love" as narrowly defined by church and state...(and no, I'm not one of those "what about men's rights" people. I just wanna fight for everyone.)

[BearWindAppleyard]

@allforch17 good quote, he seems interesting from the wikipedia page.

[allforch17]

@BearWindAppleyard ""I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government" Henry David Thoreau

[jackal59]

One way or the other, I'm going to find a way to play this for my students. Not because I completely agree with it - I don't - but because in less than two minutes it tears off the top of your skull, points inside, and yells, "There, look! Look! Why have you never questioned this before?"

[capablekel]

this is sooo AMAZING

[austereben]

@BearWindAppleyard - Find me any group that says, "Protecting your children, fighting oppression, or self-defence is bad," and I will agree that they're wrong. Eve Libertine is an anarcha-feminist, she isn't anti-love. Anarcha-feminists support free love, which would stop the state from interfering in people's sexual matters(marriage being one of them).

[BearWindAppleyard]

Crass hate evrything that can B concievd of as institution or authority etc. I think they R great & make some powerful music and lyrics but I don't share these views that love is only a prison, (marriage maybe tho). I think it's very naive to think that all authority is bad. To protect your children is authority, to fight against oppression is authority, selfdefence is authority, most Anarchist are using the tool of authority, even Crass, . U gotta spread the authority, not elimininate it

[mamakoala666]

Damn I love this part:

If we didn't have these codes for love, of tokens and positions,

We'd find ourselves as lovers still, not tokens of possessions.

It's a natural, it's a romance, without the power and greed,

We can fight to lift the cover if you want to sow and seed.

[agnosticfunk]

i wish i'd heard this before i got married!

awesome(not in the over used american sense) cheers for the lyrics Alan!