Working Class Hero

Manic Street Preachers

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
A working class hero is something to be

They hit you at home and hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can follow the rules
A working class hero is something to be
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
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion, sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I could see
A working class hero is something to be
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 when you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero then just follow me
If you want to be a hero then just follow me


Lyrics submitted by Aerofrog

Working Class Hero Lyrics as written by John Winston Lennon

Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing

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    General CommentGood Cover. Hidden track on send away the tigers
    Aerofrogon July 30, 2007   Link
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    General Commentthis is why i hate the radio, they play the shitty green day version of this song so much instead of this.
    King of Some Islandon August 15, 2007   Link
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    General Commentthat mite hav somethin 2 do with the fact that green day released their version as a single whereas the manics didn't.

    still, this version is good too.
    brainstew13on October 04, 2007   Link
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    General CommentI love the Lennon version, and the Greenday version, but this, THIS is class!!!!!

    I still think Wire should have sung it. would have been well better.

    MANICS 4EVA!!!!!!!!
    wee yinon July 26, 2008   Link

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