Crass was an influential English anarchist punkband. Crass formed in 1977, based around Dial House, an 'open house community' near Epping, Essex, in England. Whereas the Sex Pistols' anarchism seemed to be a self-consciously nihilistic prank, Crass's stance was more directly linked to the libertarian socialist or communalistic varieties of 20th century political thought. Taking literally the punk manifesto of "Do It Yourself", Crass combined the use of song, film, sound collage, graphics and subversion to launch a sustained and innovative critical broadside against all that they saw as a culture built on foundations of war, violence, sexism, religious hypocrisy and unthinking consumerism. They were also amongst the progenitors of the anarcho-pacifism that became pervasive in the punkmusic scene (see also anarcho-punk).
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Crass
You're paying for prisons, you're paying for war
Paying for lobotomies, you're paying for law
Paying for their order, paying for their murder
Paying for your ticket to watch the farce
Knowing you've made your contribution
To the systems fucked solution
To political pollution
No chance of revolution
No chance of change
You've got no range
Don't just take it, don't take their shit
Don't play their game, don't take their blame
USE YOUR OWN HEAD, your turn instead
It's not apologise, It's not economise
It's not make do, It's not pull through
It's not take it, It's not make it
It's not just you, It's not madmen
It's not difficult, It's not behave
It's not, oh well, just this once
It's fucking impossible
It's fucking unbearable
It's fucking stupid
FUCKING STUPID