Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
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Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
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Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
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What a fucking rip off, oi, oi, oi
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Another threatening glance, another macho stance,
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Another aggressive fist, another arsehole pissed,
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Another vicious threat, a stream of blood stained sweat,
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Another bottle waved in the air, another battle with tension and fear.
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Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
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Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
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Ain't it just a rip off, oi, oi, oi
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What a fucking rip off, oi, oi, oi
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Tell me, why do you glorify violence? Ain't there nothing better to give?
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Why fuck up the only chance to be yourself and really live?
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You tell me you're a working class loser, well what the fuck does that mean?
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Is the weekly fight at the boozer gonna be the only action you've seen?
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Are you gonna be one of the big boys, well, we've seen it all before,
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Muscles all akimbo as they boot down another door.
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Will you see yourself as the hero as you boot in another head,
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When you're just a pathetic victim of the media you've been fed.
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You're lost in your own self pity, you've bought the system's lie,
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They box us up and sit pretty as we struggle with the knots they tie.
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Okay, so you're right about one thing, no-one's got the right to shit on you,
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But what's the point of shitting on yourself, what's that gonna do?
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Working class hero beats up middle class twit,
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Media labels, system's shit.
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When it looks like the people could score a win,
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The system makes sure that the boot goes in.
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Yeah it's the greatest working class rip off, oi, oi, oi
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Just another fucking rip off, a fucking media ploy
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It's the greatest working class rip off, oi, oi, oi
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Ain't it just a rip off, ain't it just a rip off, ain't it just a rip off, oi
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Punk attacked the barriers of colour, class and creed,
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But look at how it is right now, do you really think you're freed?
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Punk once stood for freedom, not violence, greed and hate,
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Punk's got nothing to do with what you're trying to create.
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Anarchy, violence, chaos? You mindless fucking jerks!
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Can't you see you're talking about the way the system works?
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Throughout our bloody history force has been the game,
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The message that you offer is just the fucking same.
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You're puppets to the system with your mindless violent stance,
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That's right you fuckers, sneer at us cos we say "Give peace a chance"
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Punk is dead you wankers, cos you killed it through and through,
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In your violent world of chaos, what you gonna do?
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Is Top of the Pops the way in which you show how much you care?
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You take off now to the U.S.A. and spread your message there?
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Well mouth and trousers, sonny boy, never changed a thing,
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The only thing that'll ever change will be the song you sing,
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Cos when you've bought your Rolls Royce car and your luxury penthouse flat
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You'll be looking down your nose and saying "Punk, dear chap, what's that?"
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You'll be the working class hero with your middle class dream,
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And the world will be the same as the world has always been.
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Punk's the people's music so you can stuff your ideas of class,
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That's just the way the system keep you sitting on your arse.
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Class, class, class, that's all you fucking hear,
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Middle class, working class, I don't fucking care.
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It's the greatest working class rip off, oi, oi, oi
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What a fucking rip off, oi, oi, oi
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It's the greatest human sell off, oi, oi, oi
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Ain't it just a rip off, ain't it just a rip off, ain't it just a rip off, oi
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Punk's the peoples music and I don't care where they're from,
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Black or white, punk or skin, there ain't no right or wrong!
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We're all just human beings, some of us rotten, some of us good.
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You can stuff your false divisions cos together I know we could.
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Beat the system, beat its rule
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Ain't got no class, I ain't a fool
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Beat the system, beat its law
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Ain't got no religion cos I know there's more
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Beat the system, beat its game
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Ain't got no colour, we're all the same
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People, people, not colour, class or creed
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Don't destroy the people, destroy their power and their greed.
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