Punk Is Dead Lyrics - You'll Ruin It For Everyone - Crass

Yes that's right, punk is dead 

It's just another cheap product for the consumers head 

Bubblegum rock on plastic transistors 

Schoolboy sedition backed by big time promoters 

CBS promote the Clash 

Ain't for revolution, it's just for cash 

Punk became a fashion just like hippy used to be 

Ain't got a thing to do with your or me 

Movements are systems and systems kill 

Movements are expressions of the public will 

Punk became a movement cos we all felt lost 

Leaders sold out and now we all pay the cost 

Punk narcissism was a social napalm 

Steve Jones started doing real harm 

Preaching revolution, anarchy and change 

Sucked from the system that had given him his name 

Well I'm tired of staring through shit stained glass 

Tired of staring up a superstars arse 

I've got an arse and crap and a name 

I'm just waiting for my fifteen minutes fame 

Steven Jones, you're napalm 

If you're so pretty vacant, why do you smarm? 

Patti Smith, you're napalm, your write with your hand 

But it's Rimbaud's arm 

And me, yes, I, do I want to burn? 

Is there something I can learn? 

Do I need a business man to promote my angle 

Can I resist the carrots that fame and fortune dangle 

I see the velvet zippies in their bondage gear 

The social elite with safetypins in their ear 

I watch and understand that it don't mean a thing 

The scorpions might attack, but the systems stole the sting 

PUNK IS DEAD. PUNK IS DEAD. PUNK IS DEAD.