Conflict - The Right To Reply lyrics

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The house,<br />

Looks for an answer to end all the violence.<br />

The ungovernable finally break silence,<br />

There's endless white papers, and new institutions.<br />

That still won't stop us, it's no solution<br />

The right and the left wing continue to bore,<br />

With pre-dated policies all heard before.<br />

This is mankind now see how mankind kills,<br />

We're hitting back hard now you see how it feels.<br />

They teach and preach examination tests,<br />

So the political privelaged can order the rest,<br />

Of the young parasites,<br />

Who live in a world without hope,<br />

To get back in line, and stay there,<br />

Then assure us they'll cope.<br />

In the new violent Brirtain they pledge to invest,<br />

In skills and communities with renewed interest.<br />

To build schools of education,<br />

Not colleges of crime<br />

A manifesto so perfcetly timed,<br />

Providing help for the helpless,<br />

Their new commissions strive,<br />

For a stable re-educated society by 1995.<br />

Meanwhile, we fight on in desparation<br />

Still trying to break through.<br />

Their barriers of insanity and even now they know it's true,<br />

That to irradicate violence effectively,<br />

Injustice has to unfold.<br />

But, instead they choose to compensate, to lie and<br />

Then collaborate, no interest in any true debate,<br />

Their courts set up the offenders fate, the new<br />

Secure units for the old custodial sentence.<br />

Well we have listened to you for long enough,<br />

Taken all your threats, and you ain't so tough.<br />

You intimidate, then punish the persistent hard-core offender.<br />

You condemn more and understand less,<br />

You'll get no apologies ever.<br />

In an atmosphere of moral panic,<br />

You blame us for fighting back.<br />

But it's us that's been dragged through your streets backwards,<br />

Battered shell-shocked and attacked.<br />

The pressure's building on law and order,<br />

But we ain't even started.<br />

They may think they have been tested,<br />

But no way for we still stand divided.<br />

More and more we're turning against our own,<br />

How come? How have we forgot?<br />

That this is the one thing they want us to do,<br />

To compensate<br />

For the freedom that we ain't got.<br />

Some mug old folks and these are SCUM<br />

It's the one main thing that just ain't done.<br />

We can deal perfectly with our own problems,<br />

By taking the law in to our own hands.<br />

We can protect our own, young, the weak, and<br />

Elderly, and therefore smash their callous plans.<br />

I shall not work to build my death<br />

Nor have decisions madeby fools,<br />

For my or your behalf.<br />

As though I can't see or hear<br />

Of that which surrounds me,<br />

As though I'm quite content<br />

With all that, that disgusts me.<br />

I will not build for another's gain,<br />

Although it always ends up the same,<br />

It's as though I can't see or hear,<br />

As though I'm content,<br />

With everything that disgusts me.<br />

How can they talk about low life?<br />

Whilst they're destroying the earth?<br />

How can they take away someone's freedom?<br />

When they don't know what it's worth.<br />

To the people with feelings,<br />

To those not totally succeeding,<br />

Those, shattered, torn, ripped right in half,<br />

And whose broken hearts are bleeding.<br />

Yet still they bash and batter,<br />

To them, man onslaught, does not matter.<br />

They create society's whitewashed picture,<br />

That everything is alright.<br />

Then when people voice opinion, and object,<br />

They show disgust, confusion and then demonstrate<br />

Their might.<br />

Don't you dare think for a moment, that it's only in a<br />

Riot that we show we're discontent.<br />

It's in every so called criminal act,<br />

That we demonstrate our contempt.<br />

You shove your outstanding promises, your respect<br />

I only have respect for the life.<br />

That you destroy time and time and time again,<br />

I'm still hoping for the hopeless,<br />

And making excuses for the lawless.