Crass - Christ - The Album - You Can Be Who? - Lyrics, Music, Songs

Artist: Crass

Album: Christ - The Album (1982)

"You Can Be Who?"

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

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.

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
You're 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

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.

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.

The Feeding Of The 5000 (1978)


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  1. Asylum
  2. Do They Owe Us A Living? (Well?...Do They?)
  3. End Result
  4. They've Got Bomb
  5. Punk Is Dead
  6. Reject Of Society
  7. General Bacardi
  8. Banned From The Roxy
  9. G's Song
  10. Fight War, Not Wars
  11. Women
  12. Securicor
  13. Sucks
  14. You Pay
  15. Angels
  16. What A Shame
  17. So What
  18. Banned From The Roxy
  19. Do They Owe Us A Living- (Well- Do They-)
  20. Fight War, Not Wars
  21. General Bacardi
  22. Reject Of Society

Stations Of The Crass (1979)


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  1. Mother Earth
  2. White Punks On Hope
  3. You've Got Big Hands
  4. Darling
  5. System
  6. Big Man, Big M.A.N.
  7. Hurry Up Garry (The Parsons Farted)
  8. Fun Going On
  9. Crutch Of Society
  10. Heard Too Much About
  11. Chairman Of The Bored
  12. Tired
  13. Walls (Fun In The Oven)
  14. Upright Citizen
  15. The Gasman Cometh
  16. Demoncrats
  17. Contaminational Power
  18. Time Out
  19. I Ain't Thick, It's Just A Trick
  20. Big Man, Big M A N
  21. Chairman Of The Bored
  22. Crutch Of Society
  23. Heard Too Much About
  24. The Gasman Cometh
  25. Upright Citizen
  26. Walls (Fun In The Oven)
  27. White Punks On Hope

Penis Envy (1981)


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  1. Bata Motel
  2. Systematic Death
  3. Poison In A Pretty Pill
  4. What The Fuck?
  5. Where Next Columbus?
  6. Berkertex Bribe
  7. Smother Love
  8. Health Surface
  9. Dry Weather
  10. Our Wedding
  11. Yes Sir, I Will
  12. Berkertex Bribe
  13. Poison In A Pretty Pill
  14. Systematic Death
  15. What The Fuck-
  16. Where Next Columbus-

Christ - The Album (1982)


$album.title
  1. Have A Nice Day
  2. Mother Love
  3. Nineteen Eighty Bore
  4. I Know There Is Love
  5. Beg Your Pardon
  6. Birth Control 'n' Rock 'n' Roll
  7. Reality Whitewash
  8. It's The Greatest Working Class Rip-Off
  9. Deadhead
  10. You Can Be Who?
  11. Buy Now Pay As You Go
  12. Rival Tribal Revel Rebel (Pt. 2)
  13. Bumhooler
  14. Sentimental (White Feathers)
  15. Major General Despair
  16. Buy Now Pay As You Go
  17. I Know There Is Love
  18. Major General Despair
  19. Nineteen Eighty Bore
  20. Reality Whitewash
  21. Rival Tribal Revel Rebel (Pt 2)
  22. You Can Be Who-

Best Before (1986)


$album.title
  1. Do They Owe Us A Living?
  2. Major General Despair
  3. Angela Rippon
  4. Reality Asylum
  5. Shaved Women
  6. Bloody Revolutions
  7. Nagasaki Nightmare
  8. Big A, Little A
  9. Rival Tribal Rebel Revel
  10. Sheepfarming in the Falklands
  11. How Does It Feel?
  12. Immortal Death
  13. Don't Tell Me You Care
  14. Gotcha
  15. You're Already Dead
  16. Nagasaki Is Yesterday's Dog-End
  17. Don't Get Caught
  18. Smash The Mac
  19. Bloody Revolutions
  20. Do They Owe Us A Living-
  21. How Does It Feel-
  22. Major General Despair
  23. Nagasaki Nightmare
  24. Rival Tribal Rebel Revel

Yes Sir, I Will


  1. Yes Sir, I Will

Miscellaneous Tracks


  1. Angels
  2. Asylum
  3. Banned from the Roxy
  4. Bata Motel
  5. Beg Your Pardon
  6. Berkertex Bribe
  7. Big a Little A
  8. Birth Control
  9. Bloody Revolutions
  10. Bumhooler
  11. Buy Now, Pay As You Go
  12. Chairman of the Bored
  13. Contaminational Power
  14. Crutch of Society
  15. Darling
  16. Deadhead
  17. Demoncrats
  18. Do They Owe Us A Living?
  19. Dry Weather
  20. End Result
  21. Fun Going On
  22. General Bacardi
  23. Gs Song
  24. Have A Nice Day
  25. Health Surface
  26. Heard Too Much About
  27. Hurry up Garry
  28. I Know There Is Love
  29. Major General Despair
  30. Mother Earth
  31. Mother Love
  32. Nineteen Eighty Bore
  33. Poison In A Pretty Pill
  34. Punk is Dead
  35. Reality Asylum
  36. Reality Whitewash
  37. Reject
  38. Reject Of Society
  39. Rival Tribal Rebel Revels
  40. Securicor
  41. Sentiment
  42. Smash The Mac
  43. Smother Love
  44. So What
  45. Sucks
  46. System
  47. Systematic Death
  48. The Gasman Cometh
  49. The Greatest Working Class Rip Off
  50. Theyve Got a Bomb
  51. Time Out
  52. Tired
  53. Upright Citizen
  54. What a Shame
  55. What the Fuck
  56. Where Next Columbus
  57. White Punks on Hope
  58. Women
  59. You Can Be Who?
  60. You Pay
  61. Youve Got Big Hands

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