Working Class Hero

Song ratings

Rating	Comments	Author	Date
		Bobber	April 11, 2012
	Ask anybody who has listened to JOHN LENNONS music which is there favorite song must will go for IMAGINE, the rest will no doubt go for this great song,covered by many artists,david bowie,marianne faithful...If your into nice easy listening pop songs its not for you, if you`ve come from a working class background you can see where LENNONS coming from, if you come from a good eduction,swimming pool in your back garden maybe not.	john cocks	January 3, 2007
	This particular song is the focal point of my dislike for the POB album. It is well chronicled that the schoolboy John Lennon tanked, rebelled, and basically did what the hell he wanted to. Now that's okay, lots of folks do that, hell, I did it myself. But to come out years later and make a (minor) hit song about how poor little Johnny was so damaged by that experience is despicable. This whole era of Lennon's life (the Bagism B.S., the uninformed political posturing, even claiming to be a Messiah-like sufferer) is narcissism in the highest degree, the absolute nadir of John's life--from which he thankfully emerged in time. How people rate JL-POB as a highlight is a mystery to me; these must be the same folks who maintain that the piece of crap known as "Catcher in the Rye" is great American literature.	Bruce Beatlefan	April 29, 2006

Lyrics

As soon as your 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
Working Class Hero is something to be
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 despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
Working Class Hero is something to be
Working Class Hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
Working Class Hero is something to be
Working Class Hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religon, sex and T.V.
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasents as far as I can see
Working Class Hero is something to be
Working Class Hero is something to be

There's room at the top I'm 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
Working Class Hero is something to be

Yes , A Working Class Hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

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