Was it written to offend you
Maybe it was written to provoke you
To rock the boat and make you see
What life was about in the 1970s
Spitting out words into a microphone
Not happy with the establishment
Dark days in London town
Those in power are still vacant

Nobody can do it like Johnny
He had a way of playing with fire
You can call him many things
But he definitely wasn’t a liar
We had the sly genius that was Malcolm
Always hiding behind the bloody wall
Leaving his soldiers to face the flak
In the derelict hot dance halls
The little publicity stunt of EMI
And how they became Virgins
The jubilee party on the Thames
And their raucous god save the queen
London was in the mire back then
It seemed like everyone was on strike
That’s why all these bands performed
Chord after chord every single night
Was it music you say
Or was it a wall of noise
It was aggressive as well as provocative
A job well done by the boys
From anarchy in the UK to no feelings
They all put their bodies on the line
When we got to the 1980s
The bad boys sang sweet child of mine
Could they have survived if they hadn’t split
Would Sid be still walking this earth
Was their reunion a farce back in the 90s
Seeing the scene didn’t have a ribirth
Never before and never again
Nevermind the bollocks was so true
But was it written to offend
Or was it written to move you ?


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