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Urban Guerrilla Lyrics
I'm an urban guerrilla
I make bombs in my cellar
I'm a derelict dweller
I'm a potential killer
I'm a street fighting dancer
I'm a revolutionary romancer
My rising sign is Cancer
I'm a two-tone panther
So let's not talk of love and flowers
And things that don't explode
We've used up all of our magic powers
Trying to do it in the road
I'm a political bandit
And you don't understand it
You took my dream and canned it
It is not the way I planned it
I'm society's destructor
I'm a petrol bomb constructor
I'm a cosmic light conductor
I'm the people's debt collector
So watch out Mr. Business Man
Your empire's about to blow
I think you'd better listen, man
In case you did not know
I make bombs in my cellar
I'm a derelict dweller
I'm a potential killer
I'm a street fighting dancer
I'm a revolutionary romancer
My rising sign is Cancer
I'm a two-tone panther
And things that don't explode
We've used up all of our magic powers
Trying to do it in the road
And you don't understand it
You took my dream and canned it
It is not the way I planned it
I'm society's destructor
I'm a petrol bomb constructor
I'm a cosmic light conductor
I'm the people's debt collector
Your empire's about to blow
I think you'd better listen, man
In case you did not know
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It's about the disillusionment of the end of the sixties/beginning of the seventies.
"So let's not talk of love and flowers And things that don't explode We've used up all our magic powers Trying to do it in the road"
The peace & love movement failed, and was consumed by the capitalist machine that it originally struggled against.
"You took my dream and canned it It is not the way I planned it"
The rest of the lyrics are expressing frustration, boiling over into the political violence of the seventies.