Fight against them or they'll break your spirit down Fight against them or they'll try, try to control you

It doesn’t matter what they're saying They're only trying to break you The smiles in their lying eyes They're only trying to break you Read between the lines and you will find That they're only trying to break you What more would they ever need When they're only trying to break you down

I haven't seen the sun for days, only nights and dawns And I don't see much of laughing days And how can I ever learn to keep them down When they hide in places inside me

Fight against them or they’ll break your spirit down Fight against them or they’ll try, try to control you

It doesn’t matter what they're saying They're only trying to break you The smiles in their lying eyes They're only trying to break you Read between the lines and you will find That they're only trying to break you What more would they ever need When they're only trying to break you down.

Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but I feel that I should be heard loud and clear We all need a big reduction in amount of tears And all the people that you made in your image See them fighting in the street 'Cause they can't make opinions meet about God They can't believe in you

Did you make disease And the diamond blue? Did you make mankind After we made you? And the devil too?

Dear God, don't know if you noticed but Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book Us crazy humans wrote it, you should take a look And all the people that you made in your image Still believing that junk is true Well, I know it ain't, so do you

Dear God I can't believe in - I don't believe in -

I won't believe in heaven and hell No saints, no sinners, no Devil as well No Pearly Gates, no thorny crown You're always letting us humans down The wars you bring, the babies you drown Those lost at sea, and never found

And it's the same the whole world 'round The hurt I see helps to compound The Father, Son and Holy Ghost They're just somebody's unholy hoax And if you're up there, you perceive That my heart's here, upon my sleeve

If there's one thing I don't believe in It's you Dear God

Big A, little A, bouncing B The system might have got you but it won't get me

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External control are you gonna let them get you? Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you? You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you? They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you

Hello, hello, hello, this is the Lord God, can you hear? Hellfire and damnation's what I've got for you down there On earth I have ambassadors, archbishop, vicar, pope We'll bind you with morality, you'd best abandon any hope, We're telling you you'd better pray 'cause you were born in sin Right from the start we'll build a cell and then we'll lock you in We sit in holy judgement, condemning those that stray We offer our forgiveness, but first we'll make you pay

External control are you gonna let them get you? Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you? You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you? They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you

Hello, hello, hello, now here's a message from your queen As figurehead of the status quo I set the social scene I'm most concerned about my people, I want to give them peace So I'm making sure they stay in line with my army and police My prisons and my mental homes have ever open doors For those amongst my subjects who dare to ask for more Unruliness and disrespect are things I can't allow So I'll see the peasants grovel if they refuse to bow

External control are you gonna let them get you? Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you? You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you? They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you

Introducing the Prime Sinister, she's a mother to us all Like the dutch boy's finger in the dyke her arse is in the wall Holding back the future waiting for the seas to part If Moses did it with his faith, she'll do it with an army Who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there Guarding national heritage no matter what or where Palaces for kings and queens, mansions for the rich Protection for the wealthy, defence of privilege They've learnt the ropes In Ireland, engaged in civil war Fighting for the ruling classes in their battle against the poor So Ireland's just an island? It's an island of the mind Great Britain? Future? Bollocks, you'd better look behind Round every other corner stands P.C. 1984 Guardian of the future, he'll implement the law He's there as a grim reminder that no matter what you do Big brothers system's always there with his beady eyes on you From God to local bobby, in home and street and school They've got your name and number while you've just got their rule We've got to look for methods to undermine those powers It's time to change the tables. The future must be ours

Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do I am he and she is she but you're the only you No one else has got your eyes, can see the things you see It's up to you to change your life and my life's up to me The problems that you suffer from are problems that you make The shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to take If you don't like the life you live, change it now it's yours Nothing has effects if you don't recognise the cause If the programme's not the one you want, get up, turn off the set It's only you that can decide what life you're going to get If you don't like religion you can be the antichrist If your tired of politics you can be an anarchist But no one ever changed the church by pulling down a steeple And you'll never beat the system by bombing number ten Systems just aren't made of bricks they're mostly made of people You may send them into hiding, but they'll be back again If you don't like the rules they make, refuse to play their game If you don't want to be a number, don't give them your name If you don't want to be caught out, refuse to hear their question Silence is a virtue, use it for your own protection They'll try to make you play their game, refuse to show your face If you don't want to be beaten down, refuse to join their race Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do I am he and she is she but you're they only you

Night hangs on the city Like a blanket on a cage A sacrifice prepared

Laughter lies on faces Where the sun has never shone The fear of life is strong

We are waiting in a forest Deep and dark behind the wall What is hidden in our hearts

Absolves us of all worry When our fate is in the hands Of a demon or a god

Porrohman come from the inside of time Takes his dust from a moving line On our knees with our eyes on the ground Those once lost have now been found

Give us iron give us rope Give us iron give us rope

Save us from all worldly pain Save us from the glowing rain Save us from all love and hope Give us iron give us rope

Give us iron give us rope Give us iron give us rope