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Anti-Social? Lyrics by Ciaran Murphy

The Verbal Hand Grenade EP

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I was sitting in the bar one Friday evening
Men were laughing at some young lad up the lane
They put a shotgun to his knees
And no-one stopped to hear the pleas
Oh it’s so funny how they left him in the rain
And I asked them what they meant by anti-social
Was he flooding the estates with low paid jobs?
Did he make a million pounds knocking public housing down
And making space for yuppie flats for smart arsed yobs
But the place was standing still when I stopped talking
And they looked at me as if I wasn't well
And one said someone had to pay
There was a bookies robbed today
And we’ll all be middle class soon anyway
[Chorus]
But I thought, who are we to look down on these people?
Who could see no other way to make it through
Than to fiddle what they could
From the so-called great and good
Oh if I just had their balls I'd do it too
See I find it hard to take the double standards
To look down on the people doing time
It seems the rich can rob us all, take our produce and have a ball
Oh but when we take it back they call it crime
So I went down to the court the following Monday
There was a young girl sat crying in the dock
And they told her "crime won't pay" as they took her child away
And sent her off to Hydebank stunned with shock
The credit card she had was labelled stolen
And as the C.I.D. man smiled she left in tears
But not a courtroom in the land would put a bankman on remand
Though he'd been ripping off the working class for years
[Chorus]
So I said, "Who are we to look down on these people?
Who could see no other way to make it through
Than to fiddle what they could
From the so-called great and good
Oh if I just had their balls I'd do it too"
So back up at the bar I couldn't help it
As once again the talk returned to crime
I said, "The man who has the loot nearly always wears a suit
And any man who rips him off's a friend of mine"
But I looked around at all the angry faces
And I thought I'd keep my feelings to myself
But I know I'm not alone, only scum steal from their own
But if you're gonna rob the rich just help yourself
[Chorus]
So I say, "Who are we to look down on these people
Who could see no other way to make it through
Than to fiddle what they could
From the so-called great and good
If I just had their balls I'd do it too"
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Ciaran Murphy

Ciaran Murphy

About “Anti-Social?” by Ciaran Murphy

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"Anti-Social?" appears on "The Verbal Hand Grenade EP".

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