Crass - I Know There Is Love lyrics

In your stinking factories and offices with your stupid systems and skills?

Think I've got nothing better to do than to grovel in the shit and the crap?

Asking for the bread and home that's mine and waiting for a pat on the back?

Think I've got nothing better to do than to live in the lie that you give?

Learn the sweet morals, the lessons, the games

And praise god for the fact that I live?

You took me and made me a MAN by making me strong, the power of this land

You took a woman and taught her she's less

A slave to the strong no more than a guest

You taught me to love, find a mate and to take

A woman to serve but your love is just rape

You leave me my children to hold and distort

To bind with your rules of normality til caught

I give them the food that you sell in the shops

I'm told is has goodness when it's only the slops

You've taken my health with your shitty benevolence

You've take my dignity with your dole queue dependence

You taught me to steal when I wanted to share

To take for myself and not even care

You've stifled my vision with oppressive authority

Dreams and the hopes nearly fade to strangle me

Gave me confusion until I had learnt

To obey all the orders and never get burnt

I shout in the streets and you take my voice

This sham of democracy leaves no choice

Take my eyes 'til there's nothing to see

Except abuse and destruction, no chance to be free

Taken my thinking, my means of survival

Thrust in my hand your gun and your bible

Told me to kill for the lord up above

You've given me hate when I KNOW THERE IS LOVE

Told me to kill for the lord up above

You've given me hate when I KNOW THERE IS LOVE