Smother Love Lyrics - Penis Envy - Crass

The true romance is the ideal repression 

That you seek, that you dream of, that you look for in the streets 

That you find in the magazines, the cinema, the glossy shops 

And the music spins you round and round looking for the props 

The silken robe, the perfect little ring 

Will give you the illusion when it doesn't mean a thing 

Step outside into the street and staring from the wall 

Is perfection of the happiness that makes you feel so small 

Romance, can you dance? D'you fit the right description? 

Do you love me? Do you love me? 

Do you want me for your own? 

Do you love me, say you need me 

So you know that I'm the one 

Tell me I'm your everything, let us build a home 

We can build a house for two, with little ones to follow 

The proof of our normality that justifies tomorrow 

Romance, romance 

Do you love me? Say you do 

We can leave the world behind and make it just for two 

Love don't make the world go round, it holds it right in place 

Keeps us thinking love's too pure to see another face 

Love's another skin-trap, another social weapon 

Another way to make men slaves and women at their beckon 

Love's another sterile gift, another shit condition 

That keeps us seeing just the one and others not existing 

Woman in a holy myth, a gift of mans expression 

She's sweet, defenceless, golden-eyed, a gift of gods repression 

If we didn't have these codes for love, of tokens and positions 

We'd find ourselves as lovers still, not tokens of possessions 

It's a natural, it's a romance, without the power and greed 

We can fight to life the cover if you want to sow a seed 

Do you love me? Do you? Do you? Don't you see they aim to smother 

The actual possibilities of seeing all the others?