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Working Class Hero Lyrics

Artist: John Lennon
Album: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they're telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

Comments/Interpretations

by jimmy pop on 11/15/2008 12:44pm
this song is awesome

by Heather on 2/9/2009 6:03pm
I love this song and greenday did a great remake of it

by jakob enk�ping on 7/22/2009 12:35pm
so true so true

by NIN777 on 3/23/2011 1:18pm
Great song by a big person.

by Derek on 10/27/2011 6:50pm
I like The Beatles!