You Can Be Who? Lyrics - Christ The Album - Crass

Chorus: Don't want a life of lies and pretence 

Don't want to play at attack and defense 

Just want my own life, I want to be free 

So you can be you, and I can be me 

Respectable businessman smart and secure 

Eat the fat of the land that they robbed from the poor 

The butcher is smiling as he brings down the knife 

As he cuts up the meat, he thinks of the wife 

As eminent psychiatrists suffer paranoid fits 

The ones they call mad have to pick up the bits 

The preachers speaks calmly, says it's love that we lack 

While his imaginary dagger is held at our back 

Chorus 

In bed you're the master or mistress, who cares? 

Abusing each other as your work off 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 

So you say you'll regret it, well that's maybe a start 

But it's so fucking easy to act out a part 

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 just isn't fun 

You're looking for peace your work's just begun 

Fighting oppression, aggression and hate 

Fighting warmongers before it's too late 

We've got to fight back to show that we care 

For so many years we've been silenced 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 

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