Tom Robinson – Better Decide Which Side You’re On – Angry Political Lyrics from Thatcher’s intolerant, divisive politics.

Tom took the Punk rage and married it to good lyrics and politics.

In the days of the seventies when unemployment was rampant and the Tories ran their war against the Trade Unions, Gays, Liberals and anybody who cared. While she was busy making deals with Murdock and setting up the capitalist State with Reagan which would result in the financial crash and the emergence of the super-rich billionaires, some people were protesting.

This wasn’t a time for sitting on the fence. You were on one side or the other. It was easy:

Fairness, justice, tolerance and liberalism

Greed, selfishness, intolerance and winner takes all – scum to the wall

“Better Decide Which Side You’re On” 

All you downtrodden people
Always bear the brunt
Just sit back on you fat backsides
Till you have to face the Front
Waiting till the bullyboys get you
Don’t make no kind of sense
And pretty soon there’ll be no room
For sitting on the fence

You better decide which side you’re on
This ship goes down before too long
If Left is right then Right is Wrong
You better decide which side you’re on

Too bad for the gay revolution
This is as far as we get
And if you think you’re free, well listen to me
You ain’t seen nothing yet
We’re all gonna feel the backlash
Of puritannical power
And kicking us down into the ground
Gonna be their Finest Hour

You better decide which side you’re on
The chips go down before too long
If Left is right then Right is Wrong
You better decide which side you’re on

Too late, trendy thinkers
Your time is running out
Ain’t no time to wonder why
Ain’t no time for doubt
Joseph, Reed and Whitehouse
Are out to get your guts
You better decide which side you’re on
Forget those ifs and buts