Lyrics

[Chorus] Don't want a life of lies and pretence Don't want to play attack and defence Just want my own life, I want to be free So you can be you, and I can be me [Verse 1] Respectable businessmen smart and secure Eat the fat of the land that they robbed from the poor The butcher is smiling as he brings down his knife As he cuts up the meat, he thinks of the wife As eminent psychiatrists suffer paranoid fidgets The ones they call mad have to pick up the bits The preacher speaks calmly, says it's love that we lack While his imaginary dagger is held at our back [Chorus] Don't want a life of lies and pretence Don't want to play attack and defence Just want my own life, I want to be free So you can be you, and I can be me [Verse 2] In bed, you're the master or mistress, who cares? Abusing each other as you work out 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 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 [Chorus] Don't want a life of lies and pretence Don't want to play attack and defence Just want my own life, I want to be free So you can be you, and I can be me [Verse 3] So you say you'll reject it, well that's maybe a start But it's so fucking easy to act out a part You 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 isn't? just fun If you're looking for peace your work's just begun Fighting oppression, aggression and hate Fighting warmakers before it's too late We've got to fight back to show that we care For so many years we've been silence 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 Who have 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