rock 'n' roles

stripped of life. thirty years of the same old shit;

of music

of money of hit after hit. from blue swede shoes and back again

different era same old game. they changed it's name once or twice

dressed if different

and upped the price

and if any question

all a lie

tell them johnny rotten never died. and what if your revolution starts

everybody will be to busy watching the charts

government-sponsored rebellion: buy it!

a bit more product to keep us quite

it's one more method of keeping us in line

it's one more fashion it's called punk this time

we're shouting loud but we're facing a wall

of sexist

drugged up

rock and roll. meanwhile the industry we call rock and roll carry's on growing

buying up our means of communication

watching and waiting

they've got the check books in the one hand

and the safe

acceptable

finished packaged product in the other. contracts! con-tricks!

i don't want to be apart of that rock and roll circus

i don't want to be a passive

well-trained animal or a painted clown

because as we're clowning about in that circus

this planet is being destroyed

bit

by bit

by bit

and rock and roll is helping to kill it. it's time to kick away the props that hold up the power structures

it's time to create something different

it's time to change!

rock and roll won't change a thing

it's the same institution no-matter what you sing!