Interpret:

Crass

Album:

Christ - The Album

Don't want a life of lies and pretence 
Don't want to play at attack and defense 
Just want my own life. I want to be free 
So you can be you, and I can be me. 


Respectable businessman smart and secure 
Eat the fat of the land that they robbed from the poor 
The butcher is smiling as he brings down the knife 
As he cuts up the meat, he thinks of the wife 
As eminent psychiatrists suffer paranoid fits 
The ones they call mad have to pick up the bits 
The preachers speaks calmly, says it's love that we lack 
While his imaginary dagger is held at our back 


Don't want a life of lies and pretence 
Don't want to play at attack and defense 
Just want my own life. I want to be free 
So you can be you, and I can be me. 


In bed you're the master or mistress, who cares? 
Abusing each other as your work off your fears 
Go climb a mountain, go fuck a scout 
Avoidance of self is what it's about 
Pretence and illusion to avoid who you are 
Don't work on yourself, just polish the car 
Switch on the telly afraid you might find 
That as well as a body you've also a mind 
Cheap glossy surface to cover the lie 
Cheap easy answers to the what, where and why 
Media drivel, yet you still watch the screen 
Life ain't for real, it's a magazine 
Conned from the start but hang onto the lies 
You're a slave to the cathode ray paradise 
You don't want the world, you just want the pics 
Media junkies, you'd die for a fix 


Don't want a life of lies and pretence 
Don't want to play at attack and defense 
Just want my own life. I want to be free 
So you can be you, and I can be me. 


So you say you'll regret it, well that's maybe a start 
But it's so fucking easy to act out a part 
Say you'll reject it, but still toe the line 
Conning yourself that you're doing just fine 
Anarchy, freedom, more games to play? 
Fight war, not wars? Well it's something to say 
Slogans and badges worn without thought 
Instant identities so cheaply bought 
Well freedom ain't product, it just isn't fun 
You're looking for peace your work's just begun 
Fighting oppression, aggression and hate 
Fighting warmongers before it's too late 
We've got to fight back to show that we care 
For so many years we've been silenced by fear 
Our lives have been ruined by liars and fools 
The powerful and greedy who bind us with rules 
Politicians and preachers who bind us with laws 
Stolen our peace and given us wars 
They've used us as means to their own violent ends 
Turned us against each other, made foes out of friends 
They've distorted, perverted, polluted our lives 
They've brainwashed the world with their sordid beliefs 
They seek to possess, control and corrupt 
If it's freedom we're after, they've got to be stopped.