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The British Police are the best in the world I don't believe one of these stories I've heard About pretty policemen in leather and jeans Showing their leg through a split in the seams Leering at people and leading them on Then running them in when they start to respond The press all ignore it, they don't want to see Except when the case is... a Tory MP Pictures of naked young women are best In the News of the Screws and the popular press They plaster their pages with bingo and tits Then add all the scandal and slander that fits The women at Greenham they smeared and despised They crucified Elton with gossip and lies If it's paedophile teachers or lesbian nuns If it's filth and it's fiction... it's there in the Sun Have you heard the story about Peter Wells Who one day was arrested and dragged to the cells For being in love with a man of 18 The vicar found out they'd been having a scene The magistrate sent him for trial by the Crown He even appealed, but they still sent him down He was only mistreated a couple of years Cos even in prison they look after the queers A sense of proportion is where we begin We're fighting a virus, not punishing sin The medical facts are ignored or forgot By the bigots who think it's the Judgement of God The medics are baffled and caught on the run They tell us the nightmare has barely begun While government funding is worse than a joke Cos saving our lives doesn't win any votes Now enemies everywhere laugh at the sight Of gay against lesbian, dyke against dyke I don't give a toss about who's in the wrong The ins and the outs - or the faults in this song We're getting oppressed and arrested and banned While we bicker politically where we should stand Forget the aggression from everywhere else We still do a wonderful job oppressing ourselves So sit back and watch as they seize all our books And treat us like lepers and sinners and crooks Just hope you don't get caught up in the raids Or pick up a pig or a partner with AIDS Lie to your workmates & lie to your folks Put down the clones and tell lesbian jokes Forget the aggression from everywhere else While we still do a wonderful job Oppressing ourselves so try and (SING IF...etc) With friends and supporteers from over the land We're gathered together and making a stand To fight for the right for a home and a job And to walk without fear of a kick in the gob Slagged in the media, bashed by the bill With cheap politicians all making a kill We're lesbian women, we're men who are gay We're here and we're human and won't go away (Source: TomRobinson.com) |