Crass - Bloody Revolutions (With Lyrics)

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 anarchy and peace

You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference 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 they've got it wrong because they don't agree with you
So when the revolution comes you'll have to run them through
You say that revolution will bring freedom for us all
Well freedom just ain't freedom when your back's against the wall

You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me

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 succeeded, 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

You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me

Vive la revolution, people of the world unite
Stand up men of courage, it's your job to fight

It all seems very easy, this revolution game
But when you start to really play things won't be quite the same
Your intellectual theories on how it's going to be
Don't seem to take into account 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 freedom of us all against the suffering of the few?
That's the kind of self-deception that killed ten million jews
Just the same false logic that all power-mongers use
So don't think you can fool me with your political tricks
Political right, political left, you can keep your politics
Government is government and all government is force
Left or right, right or left, it takes the same old course
Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law
The seizure of that power is all your revolution's for
You romanticise your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao
Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression now

Nothing 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

Nothing 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 nothing that you offer but a dream of last years hero
The truth of revolution, brother................... is year zero.

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[LettuceMan8]

It's a shame that a man like toto3777 calls himself an anarchist, even though all he stands for is violence, hate and fear, exactly the tools used by every regime anarchy comes to replace. An anarchistic society can not stand without trust in your fellow humans and the human nature, a trust toto (like so many other so called intellectuals of his kind), seems to lack in an almost pathological manner.

[LettuceMan8]

@toto3777 @toto3777 Actually youre completely right. I also consider anarchy a utopian idea, and for me its only possible for small self-providing communities to be run by it. I was just upset to read a guy who calls himself an anarchist declare that he would gladly shoot people who go against "the revolution". But now that you are a "marxist-leninist" it makes more sense to me, and I am wishing you better luck in your revolution against the bourgeoisie then other like-minds before you

[twongy1919]

d'oh IF you have to analyise it, then you have lost the plot.

For those of you that bought the singles, the anarchist centre was a large mansion down south that the band members drove in and out of in their Rolls Royce's. as Johnny said, have you ever had the feeling YOU have been had...

[xXbestefarXx]

@LettuceMan8 Well there's more than one branch of anarchy, such as anarcho-primitism for example. That system would surely cause the death of millions of people.

[toto3777]

@MrCamafas ... And you know absolutely nothing about what you are talking about. Anarchism is not beyond anything, it is a system, almost every other system can adapt and evolve (note reforms) just as anarchy can, and anarchy is NOT chaos (in whatever sense). I suggest you read up on Anarchism before you post again as clearly that there is laughable nonsense. I suggest you start off by reading the wiki entry on it.

[MrCamafas]

@toto3777 anarchy has its social and economic theories but its beyond that and its not a system, it evolves and adapts unlike other political systems. anarchy is chaos and chaos doesnt always means violence, in the chaos of nature you find balance and beauty, in anarchy you'll find freedom.

[DJMischkonsum]

@ThePunkake we are all part of the system! the system = the people

[unwantedchild1130]

"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them. Unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom." --Noam Chomsky

[unwantedchild1130]

Bloody revolutions only replace violent leaders with new violent leaders. Peaceful revolutions however replace violent leaders with peaceful ones. A true anarchist society may be an impossible goal like reaching absolute zero, there will always be someone somewhere with power over someone else. Just like in the worst totalitarian societies, say Nazi Germany, there were still aspects of society outside of Hitler's control. But all that's not a reason to not go out and try to improve things.

[aristotle358]

Punk is not dead; it just smells funny!

[aristotle358]

@toto3777 That which is be to fucked! (only being facetious; and I agree with your comment above about the "mindless idiots who know nothing about anyhting") And as for the comment below about you by lettuceMan8 I don't recognise that in what you have said. You never said that you were an ancarchist but that such as are are as guilty of imposing their systems on us as the ones they oppose. Human nature just isn't up to the task of a just and fair world; selfishness prevails!