You talk about your revolution, well, thatÂ’s fine
But what are you going to be doing come the time?
Are you going to be the big man with the tommy-gun?
Will you talk of freedom when the blood begins to run?
Well, freedom has no value if violence is the price
DonÂ’t want your revolution, I want anarchy and peace
You talk of over throwing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ainÂ’t it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me
But what about those people who donÂ’t want your new restrictions?
Those that disagree with you and have their own convictions?
You say theyÂ’ve got it wrong because they donÂ’t agree with you
So when the revolution comes youÂ’ll have to run them through
Yet you say that revolution will bring freedom for us all
Well freedom just ainÂ’t freedom when your backÂ’s against the wall
You talk of over throwing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ainÂ’t it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me
Will you indoctrinate the masses to serve your new regime?
And simply do away with those whose views are too extreme?
Transportation details could be left to British rail
Where Zyklon B succeeded, North Sea Gas will fail
ItÂ’s just the same old story of man destroying man
WeÂ’ve got to look for other answers to the problems of this land
You talk of over throwing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ainÂ’t it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me
Vive la revolution, people of the world unite
Stand up men of courage, itÂ’s your job to fight
It all seems very easy, this revolution game
But when you start to really play things wonÂ’t be quite the same
Your intellectual theories on how itÂ’s going to be
DonÂ’t seem to take into account the true reality
Cos the truth of what youÂ’re saying, as you sit there sipping beer
Is pain and death and suffering, but of course you wouldnÂ’t care
YouÂ’re far too much of a man for that, if Mao did it so can you
WhatÂ’s the freedom of us all against the suffering of a few?
ThatÂ’s the kind of self-deception that killed ten million Jews
Just the same false logic that all power-mongers use
So donÂ’t think you can fool me with your political tricks
Government is government and all government is force
Left or right, right or left, it takes the same old course
Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law
The seizure of that power is all your revolutionÂ’s for
You romanticise your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao
Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression now
NothingÂ’s changed for all the death that their ideas created
ItÂ’s just the same fascistic games, but the rules arenÂ’t clearly stated
NothingÂ’s really different cos all governmentÂ’s the same
They can call it freedom, but slavery is the game
ThereÂ’s nothing that you offer but a dream of last years hero
The truth of revolution, brother.......... is year zero