Working Class Hero

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A new topic for the lounge... a bit abstract depending upon your perspective, but quite enough to start a good conversation...




 

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Posted by Pile on 2006-07-21 21:01:37
As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so f*cking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still f*cking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they're telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
Posted by wizeGurl on 2006-07-22 02:24:26
That was a reallly nice piece. Of course, I would be pretty much happy to watch a test pattern to that song. This was better, and also true.
Posted by Stan A on 2006-07-27 11:18:37
It seems a little depressing. But I do think it's true. Especially the "Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV". Even when it was written back when, in the 70s, Lennon could see what was coming.
working class hero
Posted by hillbillyatheist on 2006-09-25 10:33:01
wow that's a really cool song!
I must be really f*cking old
Posted by Noggin on 2006-09-29 08:57:14
I must be really frickin old 'cause I don't "get it". Guess I just never really understood hippies. /shrug
Posted by Stan on 2006-11-03 10:22:48
What is with this "hippy" thing? It's really pissing me off. Since when did "hippy" become a bad word or phrase?
Posted by Pile on 2007-06-04 00:08:06
I just found out Green Day did a version of the song:


Looks like it was edited for tv... typical.
hippyhippyshake
Posted by joey baddabeenthere on 2007-07-05 16:36:05
i get it and got it..it's starts with the Teachers Union in grammar school,your kids a loser and a thieving fool,,send you off next to the unemployment line,the cop is waiting to write you a fine,,arrest you for obstinance send you to the joint ,
thanx Pile for the vid's & Lyrics
Posted by retorted on 2007-07-05 17:11:28
their child committs it yours does the time,ya oughta hear them lyin,cryin and whine,the snitches get snitches it happens all the time
 

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