Punk quotes

Let's start off with Subhumans! #1

Frickin Dick Lucas is one of my fav songwriters. The complexity of their music and his lyrics are a great mix!

"Violence!
Optimist!
Pessimist!
It don't exist!
No I don't believe in Jesus Christ
My mother died of cancer when I was 5
No I don't believe in religion
I was forced to go to church, I wasn't told why"

-No, The Day the Country Died
(with an epic intro from song nr. 35)

There's a bomb going off in Belfast
There's a war in Vietnam
There's a T.V. documentary
To help you understand
But the other channel is better
Cos it doesn't tax your mind
Relax in the ignorance of your home
As man destroys mankind

-Human Error, Demolition War EP
(or on the Ep Lp Comp)

[The police] take away the dignity
That you never really had

-Big Brother, The Day the Country Died

Money gained from third world nations
All that money spent on war
Could be used to feed their poor

-Rats, Rats (or Time Flies but Aeroplanes Crash)

The rats have all gone underground
But we'll be back again next time round

-Rats, Rats (or Time Flies... but Aeroplanes Crash)

To forget is to forgive but there's nothing to forget
I ain't forgotten how to live and it hasn't happened [yet]
They'll drop the bomb for somthing to do, can't remember what it's for
But I ain't forgot Hiroshima
I ain't forgot the war

-When the Bomb Drops, Rats

Susan finished school at 16
Wants to be a secretary
2 years later she's got
Nowhere
Ends up in a factory
Making matches it's so boring
She gets sad and so depressed
Hears her doctor smugly tell her
Take these pills
And get some rest
But she takes it one step further
Parents rescue her in time
Smile and
Tell her when you're married
Everything will be just fine
[...]
Though he says I really love you
She feels worse off than before
9 months later she's a mother
It's a bouncing Baby boy
Oh how super say her parents
But for her there is no joy
[...]
Now she wants to endit all
Bored to death from doing nothing
[...]
Swinging Susan hanged herself
She couldn't live her pointless life
[...]
With the money from insurance
The family went on holiday
Nothing left but rotting flowers
On an unattended grave
The epitaph has faded badly
No-one reads it anyway

-Susan, Time Flies... But Aeroplanes Crash
(One of my favorite songs. Dick Lucas shows us in a poetic way, that punk hasn't always to be hardcore stuff (the song has an piano accompaniment))

In the name of God they left you to die
Religious wars there's no reason why
They left you to die

-Religious Wars, Religious Wars (or EP LP)

Okay, I think that's enough for today. Maybe there'll be a second part on Subhumans, they just got way too many good lyrics ^^

Hope ya enjoyed it, and always remember:

everyday life, everyday life
Something somewhere just ain't right

-Everyday Life, Time Flies... But Aeroplanes Crash