working class hero

• 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 fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
  
  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
  
  keep you doped with religion and sex and tv
  and you think you're so clever and classless and free
  but you're still fucking peasants as far as i can see
  
  there's room at the top they are 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
  
  if you want to be a hero well just follow me