Mother Earth Lyrics

Lyric discussion by AnneRKey666 

Cover art for Mother Earth lyrics by Crass

This song is about the Moors Murders which Myra Hindley and her boyfriend were convicted for. i believe that all that yelling for his "mother" is meant to be representative of what the victims would be yelling as they were being killed or raped. Myra Hindley is the "anti-mother" because she killed children which is the opposite of what a "mother" does, gives birth.

"she's the anti-mother, mother, mother is that you?" this line tells that although the murders were an atrocity, christians wish the worst for her "let her rot, let her starve, you'd see her dead" an eye from an eye response to express/channel their hate which is guised under their christian identity. "then you goodly christian people,with your sickly mask of love, would tear that woman limb from limb, you'd never get enough" "she's the anti-mother, mother,mother is that you" so they're alike in that way that they could be compared.