The Right To Reply

The house
Looks for an answer to end all the violence
The ungovernable finally break silence
There's endless white papers, and new institutions
That still won't stop us, it's no solution
The right and the left wing continue to bore
With pre-dated policies all heard before
This is mankind now see how mankind kills
We're hitting back hard now you see how it feels
They teach and preach examination tests
So the political privelaged can order the rest
Of the young parasites
Who live in a world without hope
To get back in line, and stay there
Then assure us they'll cope
In the new violent Brirtain they pledge to invest
In skills and communities with renewed interest
To build schools of education
Not colleges of crime
A manifesto so perfcetly timed
Providing help for the helpless
Their new commissions strive
For a stable re-educated society by 1995
Meanwhile, we fight on in desparation
Still trying to break through
Their barriers of insanity and even now they know it's true
That to irradicate violence effectively
Injustice has to unfold
But, instead they choose to compensate, to lie and
Then collaborate, no interest in any true debate
Their courts set up the offenders fate, the new
Secure units for the old custodial sentence
Well we have listened to you for long enough
Taken all your threats, and you ain't so tough
You intimidate, then punish the persistent hard-core offender
You condemn more and understand less
You'll get no apologies ever
In an atmosphere of moral panic
You blame us for fighting back
But it's us that's been dragged through your streets backwards
Battered shell-shocked and attacked
The pressure's building on law and order
But we ain't even started
They may think they have been tested
But no way for we still stand divided
More and more we're turning against our own
How come? How have we forgot?
That this is the one thing they want us to do
To compensate
For the freedom that we ain't got
Some mug old folks and these are SCUM
It's the one main thing that just ain't done
We can deal perfectly with our own problems
By taking the law in to our own hands
We can protect our own, young, the weak, and
Elderly, and therefore smash their callous plans
I shall not work to build my death
Nor have decisions madeby fools
For my or your behalf
As though I can't see or hear
Of that which surrounds me
As though I'm quite content
With all that, that disgusts me
I will not build for another's gain
Although it always ends up the same
It's as though I can't see or hear
As though I'm content
With everything that disgusts me
How can they talk about low life?
Whilst they're destroying the earth?
How can they take away someone's freedom?
When they don't know what it's worth
To the people with feelings
To those not totally succeeding
Those, shattered, torn, ripped right in half
And whose broken hearts are bleeding
Yet still they bash and batter
To them, man onslaught, does not matter
They create society's whitewashed picture
That everything is alright
Then when people voice opinion, and object
They show disgust, confusion and then demonstrate
Their might
Don't you dare think for a moment, that it's only in a
Riot that we show we're discontent
It's in every so called criminal act
That we demonstrate our contempt
You shove your outstanding promises, your respect
I only have respect for the life
That you destroy time and time and time again
I'm still hoping for the hopeless
And making excuses for the lawless