[Verse 1]
You talk about your revolution
Oh, 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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
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

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 4]
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
'Cause 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
[Verse 5]
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 those 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, or 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 'cause all government's the same
They can call it freedom
But slavery is the game
[Outro]
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 'cause 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 year's hero
The truth of revolution, brother
Is year zero