Crass - Banned From The Roxy

mixture of live and still images from the anarchist band Crass with the background music of Banned from the roxy from feeding of the 5000 mini album.

Banned From The Roxy.
Banned from the Roxy... O.K.
I never much liked playing there anyway.
They said they only wanted well behaved boys,
Do they think guitars and microphones are just fucking toys?
Fuck 'em, I chosen to make my stand,
Against what I feel is wrong with this land.
They just sit there on their overfed arses,
Feeding off the sweat of less fortunate classes.
They keep their fucking power cause their finger's on the button,
They've got control and won't let it be forgotten.
The truth of their reality is at the wrong end of a gun,
The proof of that is Belfast and that's no fucking fun.
Seeing the squaddy lying in the front yard,
Seeing the machine guns resting on the fence.
Finding the entrance to your own front door is barred
And they've got the fucking nerve to call it defence.
Seems their defence is 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 more
Than the shit they get. The shit they get.
The shit they get. The shit they get.
The shit they get. The shit they get.
The shit they get. The shit they get.
DEFENCE? SHIT, IT'S NOTHING LESS THEN WAR
AND NO ONE BUT THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK IT'S FOR.

Oh yes they say it's defence, they say it's decency,
Mai Lai, Hiroshima, know what I mean?
The same fucking lies with depressing frequency,
They say "We had to do it to keep our lives clean"
Well whose like? Whose fucking life?
Who the fuck are they talking to?
Whose life? Whose fucking life?
I tell you one thing, it ain't me and you.
And their system, christ, they're everywhere,
School, army, church, corporation deal.
A fucked up reality based on fear,
A fucking conspiracy to stop you feeling real.
Well ain't got me, I'd say their fucking wrong,
I ain't quite ready with my gun, but I've got my song...
Banned from the Roxy, well O.K.
I never much liked playing there anyway.
GUNS.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• crass
• anarchist
• punk
• anarchism

[MEEEEEEEEEEP]

@Clarke1337

Punk is subjective, just like music. It's a lifestyle and mindset not a fashion statement. In my eyes, Punk is rebellion, in the smallest or largest form it doesn't matter. It's about being yourself and not caring what others think because you know you've got nothing to prove to anyone and doing what you want because YOU want it. I really get annoyed at people that seem to think there's some sort of checklist for being punk and you need to have all of them or you're a "poser".

[Magnificoooooo]

@Clarke1337 fuck off cunt, punk isn't any one singular political idea like anarchy. you don't have to be anarchist to be a punk or like punk music. stupid fuckhead you don't even need leather or mohawks to be a punk either.

[theprofessor223]

fuck these assholes tryin to define punk! im drunk by the way mate!

[MrNivo666]

what do they think they are the f worms

[massnerder1]

@Clarke1337 you don't make the rules dude.sorry but someone had to fucking tell you.i believe in nationlism.

[mediattackrecords]

@mediattackrecords it seems like a joke that all the wobblies and student unfashionable elites gravitate to who wish they could have made it in political science but didnt have the guts to try.

[mediattackrecords]

@Clarke1337 huh? i don't believe in anarchy whatsoever. I believe in freedom. the idea of real anarchy seems like some distant class insecure fascist joke to me.

[pantone204]

This is punk, that is not....stfu and enjoy a great song. Knobs.

[Desmeii1]

to thehorsehead,you don't know what punk was about so fuck off

[thehorseshead]

Punks are soft as shite social workers,tree hugging sex cases, lefty spotty faced faggots.. haha fucking bad nigger and paki loving victims....cunts

[khoroshoorange]

@gfc92592

maybe your just a liar and a christian fundamentalist.