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The Greatest Working Class Rip Off
CHORUS: Ainât it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi/ Ainât it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi/ Ainât it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi/ Ainât it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi/ What a
fucking rip off, oi, oi, oi.
Another threatening glance, another macho stance/ Another aggressive fist, another arsehole pissed/ Another vicious threat, a stream of blood stained sweat/ Another bottle waved in the air, another battle with tension and fear.
CHORUS
Tell me, why do you glorify violence? Ainât there nothing better to give?/ Why fuck up the only chance to be yourself and really live?/ You tell me youâre a working class loser, well what the fuck does that mean?/ Is the weekly fight at the boozer gonna be the only action youâve seen?/ Are you gonna be one of the big boys, well, weâve seen it all before/ Muscles all akimbo as they boot down another door/ Will you see yourself as the hero as you boot in another head/ When youâre just a pathetic victim of the media youâve been fed/
Youâre lost in your own self pity, youâve bought the systemâs lie/ They box us up and sit pretty as we struggle with the knots they tie/ Okay, so youâre right about one thing, no-oneâs got the right to shit on you/ But
whatâs the point of shitting on yourself, whatâs that gonna do?/
Working class hero beats up middle class twit/ Media labels, systemâs shit/ When it looks like the people could score a win/ The system makes sure that the boot goes in.
Yeah itâs
the greatest working class rip off, oi, oi, oi/ Just another fucking rip off, a fucking media ploy/ Itâs the greatest working class rip off, oi, oi, oi/Ainât it just a rip off, ainât it just a rip off, ainât it just a rip off, oi.
Punk attacked the barriers of colour, class and creed/ But look at how it is right now, do you really think youâre freed?/ Punk once stood for freedom, not violence, greed and hate/ Punkâs got nothing to do with what youâre trying to create/ Anarchy, violence, chaos?/ You mindless fucking jerks/ Canât you see youâre talking about the way the system works?/ Throughout our bloody history force has been the game/ The message that you offer is just the fucking same/ Youâre puppets to the system with your mindless violent stance/ Thatâs right fuckers, sneer at us âcos we say â
Give Peace a chanceâ/
Punk is dead you wankers, âcos
you killed it through and through/ In your violent world of chaos, what you gonna do?/ Is
Top of the Pops the way in which you show how much you care?/ Will you take off now to the USA to spread your message there?/ Well mouth and trousers,
sonny boy, never changed a thing/ The only thing thatâll ever change will be the song you sing/ âCos when youâve bought your Rolls Royce car and luxury penthouse flat/ Youâll be looking down your nose and saying âPunk, dear chap, whatâs that?â/ Youâll be the
working class hero with your middle class dream/ And the world will be the same as the world has always been/ Punkâs the peopleâs music so you can stuff ideas of class/ Thatâs just the way the system keeps you sitting on your arse/ Class, class, class, thatâs all you fucking hear/ Middle class, working class, I donâtâ fucking care.
Itâs the greatest working class rip off, oi, oi, oi/ What a fucking rip off, oi, oi, oi/ Itâs the greatest human sell out, oi, oi, oi/ Ainât it just a rip off oi, oi, oi
Punkâs the peopleâs music and I donât care where theyâre from/ Black or white, punk or skin, there ainât no right or wrong/ Weâre all just human beings, some of us rotten, some of us good/ You can stuff your false divisions âcos together I know we could/
Beat the system, beat its rule/ Ainât got no class, I ainât a fool/ Beat the system, beat its law/ Ainât got no religion âcos I know thereâs more/ Beat the system, beat its game/ Ainât got no colour, weâre all the same/ People, people, not colour, class or creed/ Donât destroy the people, destroy their power and their greed.
nathan is the greatest working class rip off