Lyrics:

Big A Little A
by Crass originally recorded
in 1980.

Big A little A bouncing B
The sytem might have got you but it wont get me
1 2 3 4

Chorus:
External control are you gonna let them get you?
Do you wanna be a prisorner in the boundaries they set you?
You say you want to be yourself
By christ do you think theyll let you?
There out to get you get you get you get you get you get you

Hello, hello, hello, this is the Lord God, can you hear?
Hellfire and damnations what Ive got for you down there
On earth I have ambassadors. archbishop. vicar. pope
Well blind you with morality, youd best abandon any hope,
Were telling you youb better pray cos you were born in sin
Right from the start well build a cell and then well lock you in
We sit in holy judgement dondemning those that stray
We offer our forgiveness, but first well make you pay

Chorus

Hello. hell. hell, now heres a message from your queen
As figurehead of the status qui I set the social scene
Im most concerned about my people, I want to give them peace
So Im making sure they stay in line with my army and police
My prisons and my mental homes have ever open doors
For those amongst my subhects who dare to ask for more
Unrulyness and disrepect are things I cant allow
So Ill see the peasants grovel in they frefuse to bow.

Chorus

Introducing the Prime Sinister, shes a mother to us all
Like the dtch boys finger in the dyke her arse is in the wall
Holding back the future waiting for the seas to part
If Moses did it with his faith, she;ll do it with an army
Who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there
Gaurding national heritage no matter what or where
Palaces for kings and gueens, amnsions for the rich
Protection for the walthy, defence of pribige
Theyve learnt the ropes in Ireland, engaged in cibil war
Fighting for the ruling classes in their battle agaisnt the poor
Great Britain? Future? bollocks, youd better look begind
Round every other corner stands P.C. 1984
Guardian of the future, hell implement the law
Big brothers systems always there with his beady eyes on you
From God to local bobby, in home and street and school
Theyve got you name and number while youve just got their rule
Weve got to look for methods to undermine those powers
Its time to chage the tables. the future must be ours.

BE exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do
I am he and she is she but youre the only you
No one else has got your eyes, can see the things you see
Its up to you to change you life and my lifes up to me
The problems that you suffer from are problems that you make
The shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to take
If you dont like the life you life, change it now its yours
Nothing has effect if you dont recognise the cause
If the programmess not the one you want, get up, turn off the set
Its only you that can decide what life youre gonna get
If you dont like religion you can be the antichrist
If your tired of politics you can be an anarchist
But no on ever changed the church by pulling down the steeple
And youll never change the syustem by bombing number ten
Systems just arent made of bricks theyre most made of people
You may send then into hiding, but theyll be back again
If you dont like the rules they make, regust to play their game
If you dont want to be a numver, dont give them your name
If you dont wnat to be caught out, refuse to hear their question
Silence is a virtue, use it for your own protection
Theyll try to make you play their game,refuse to show your face
Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do
I am he and she is she but youre the only you