Bloody Revolutions

You talk about your revolution, well, that's fine
 But what are you going to be doing come the time?
 Are you going to be the big man with the tommy-gun?
 Will you talk of freedom when the blood begins to run?
 Well, freedom has no value if violence is the price
 Don't want your revolution, I want anarchy and peace
 You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
 You speak of liberation and when the people rule
 Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
 Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me
 But what about those people who don't want your new restrictions?
 Those that disagree with you and have their own convictions?
 You say they've got it wrong because they don't agree with you
 So when the revolution comes you'll have to run them through
 You say that revolution will bring freedom for us all
 Well freedom just ain't freedom when your back's against the wall
 You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
 You speak of liberation and when the people rule
 Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
 Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me
 Will you indoctrinate the masses to serve your new regime?
 And simply do away with those whose views are too extreme?
 Transportation details could be left to British rail
 Where Zyklon B succeeded, North Sea Gas will fail
 It's just the same old story of man destroying man
 We've got to look for other answers to the problems of this land
 You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
 You speak of liberation and when the people rule
 Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
 Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me
 Vive la revolution, people of the world unite
 Stand up men of courage, it's your job to fight
 It all seems very easy, this revolution game
 But when you start to really play things won't be quite the same
 Your intellectual theories on how it's going to be
 Don't seem to take into account the true reality
 Cos the truth of what you're saying, as you sit there sipping beer
 Is pain and death and suffering, but of course you wouldn't care
 You're far too much of a man for that, if Mao did it so can you
 What's the freedom of us all against the suffering of the few?
 That's the kind of self-deception that killed ten million jews
 Just the same false logic that all power-mongers use
 So don't think you can fool me with your political tricks
 Political right, political left, you can keep your politics
 Government is government and all government is force
 Left or right, right or left, it takes the same old course
 Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law
 The seizure of that power is all your revolution's for
 You romanticise your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao
 Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression now
 Nothing changed for all the death, that their ideas created
 It's just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren't clearly stated
 Nothing's really different cos all government's the same
 They can call it freedom, but slavery is the game
 Nothing changed for all the death, that their ideas created
 It's just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren't clearly stated
 Nothing's really different cos all government's the same
 They can call it freedom, but slavery is the game
 There's nothing that you offer but a dream of last years hero
 The truth of revolution, brother... is year zero.