Big A, Little A Lyrics - 12 Crass Songs - Jeffrey Lewis

Big A, little A, bouncing B 

The system might have got you but it won't get me 

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External control are you gonna let them get you? 

Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you? 

You say you want to ba yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you? 

They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you 

Hello, hello, hello, this is the Lord God, can you hear? 

Hellfire and damnation's what I've got for you down there 

On earth I have ambassadors, archbishop, vicar, pope 

We'll blind you with morality, you'd best abandon any hope, 

We're telling you you'd better pray cos you were born in sin 

Right from the start we'll build a cell and then we'll lock you in 

We sit in holy judgement condemning those that stray 

We offer our forgiveness, but first we'll make you pay 

External control are you gonna let them get you? 

Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you? 

You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you? 

They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you 

Hello, hello, hello, now here's a massage from your queen 

As figurehead of the status quo I set the social scene 

I'm most concerned about my people, I want to give them peace 

So I'm making sure they stay in line with my army and police 

My prisons and my mental homes have ever open doors 

For those amongst my subjects who dare to ask for more 

Unruliness and disrespect are things I can't allow 

So I'll see the peasants grovel if they refuse to bow 

External control are you gonna let them get you? 

Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you? 

You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you? 

They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you 

Introducing the Prime Sinister, she's a mother to us all 

Like the dutch boy's finger in the dyke her arse is in the wall 

Holding back the future waiting for the seas to part 

If Moses did it with is faith, she'll do it with an army 

Who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there 

Guarding national heritage no matter what or where 

Palaces for kings and queens, mansions for the rich 

Protection for the wealthy, defence of privilege 

They've learnt the ropes In Ireland, engaged in civil war 

Fighting for the ruling classes in their battle against the poor 

So Ireland's just an island? It's an island of the mind 

Great Britain? Future? Bollocks, you'd better look behind 

Round every other corner stands P.C. 1984 

Guardian of the future, he'll implement the law 

He's there as a grim reminder that no matter what you do 

Big brothers system's always there with his beady eyes on you 

From God to local bobby, in home and street and school 

They've got your name and number while you've just got their rule 

We've got to look for methods to undermine those powers 

It's time to change the tables. The future must be ours 

Big A, little A, bouncing B 

The system might have got you but it won't get me 

Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do 

I am he and she is she but you're the only you 

No one else has got your eyes, can see the things you see 

It's up to you to change your life and my life's up to me 

The problems that you suffer from are problems that you make 

The shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to take 

If you don't like the life you live, change it now it's yours 

Nothing has effects if you don't recognise the cause 

If the programme's not the one you want, get up, turn off the set 

It's only you that can decide what life you're gonna get 

If you don't like religion you can be the antichrist 

If your tired of politics you can be an anarchist 

But no one ever changed the church by pulling down a steeple 

And you'll never change the system by bombing number ten 

Systems just aren't made of bricks they're mostly made of people 

You may send them into hiding, but they'll be back again 

If you don't like the rules they make, refuse to play their game 

If you don't want to be a number, don't give them your name 

If you don't want to be caught out, refuse to hear their question 

Silence is a virtue, use it for your own protection 

They'll try to make you play their game, refuse to show your face 

If you don't want to be beaten down, refuse to join their race 

Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do 

I am he and she is she but you're they only you