[Verse 1]
When they kick at your front door
How are you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?

[Verse 2]
When the law breaks in
How are you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row?

[Chorus]
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, Guns of Brixton

[Verse 3]
The money seems good
And your life, you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, or as in hell

[Instrumental Interlude]
[Verse 4]
Well you know, he feels like Ivan
Born under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin'
At the end of The Harder They Come
You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
Now he leaves in a Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun

[Chorus]
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-the guns of Brixton

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 1]
When they kick at your front door
How are you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?

[Verse 2]
When the law breaks in
How are you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row?
[Chorus]
You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-the guns of Brixton

[Chorus]
You can shove us
You can bruise us
You can even shoot us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, (oi-oi-oh) the guns of Brixton

[Outro]
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, (oi-oi-oh) the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh, (oi-oi-oh) the guns of Brixton