"Big A Little A"

by Crass originally recorded

in 1980.



Big A little A bouncing B

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

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Chorus:

External control are you gonna let them get you?

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

You say you want to be yourself

By christ do you think they'll let you?

The're out to 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'b 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 dondemning those that stray

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



Chorus



Hello. hell. hell, now here's a message from your queen

As figurehead of the status qui 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 subhects who dare to ask for more

Unrulyness and disrepect are things I can't allow

So I'll see the peasants grovel in they frefuse to bow.



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

Like the dtch 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 his faith, she;ll do it with an army

Who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there

Gaurding national heritage no matter what or where

Palaces for kings and gueens, amnsions for the rich

Protection for the walthy, defence of pribige

They've learnt the ropes in Ireland, engaged in cibil war

Fighting for the ruling classes in their battle agaisnt the poor

Great Britain? Future? bollocks, you'd better look begind

Round every other corner stands P.C. 1984

Guardian of the future, he'll implement the law

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 you 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 chage the tables. the future must be ours.



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 you 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 life, change it now it's yours

Nothing has effect if you don't recognise the cause

If the programmes'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 on ever changed the church by pulling down the steeple

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

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

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

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

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

If you don't wnat 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

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