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MichaelMcGuire

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51. working class hero

Sat Dec 8, 2012, 06:34 PM

Dec 2012

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 hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so crazy you can't follow their 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 and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are 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
A working class hero is something to be
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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Thanks for the reminder. I still miss him. I was 15, living in NY when he was killed. Happyhippychick Dec 2012 #1

I was 17, watching the Tonight Show Warren Religion Dec 2012 #74

I was in a radio station when John Lennon died, MadHound Dec 2012 #2

Dear Prudence Wilms Dec 2012 #3

I love that song napkinz Dec 2012 #7

I was 13... cherish44 Dec 2012 #4

I heard Cosell report the news HangOnKids Dec 2012 #22

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six years earlier Howard Cosell interviewed him on Monday Night Football napkinz Dec 2012 #48

Cosell on MNF Bozita Dec 2012 #81

I was at a Springsteen concert in Philadelphia. jerseyjack Dec 2012 #5

I went the next nite brucefan Dec 2012 #46

9 days before, four of my friends died in a car accident babydollhead Dec 2012 #6

LOL a remembrance thread for one of the most notorious woman-abusers to ever live. Moses2SandyKoufax Dec 2012 #8

Wow that was quick oberliner Dec 2012 #9

Unlike Chris Brown, Lennon changed hobbit709 Dec 2012 #18

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Lennon/Beatles ... shitty music? napkinz Dec 2012 #28

Shitty music? Politicalboi Dec 2012 #32

did you notice also his/her attack on "aging hippies"? napkinz Dec 2012 #33

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Just sick and tired of blatant double standards.... n/t Moses2SandyKoufax Dec 2012 #31

See ya later dude HangOnKids Dec 2012 #35

I don't think you know what a double-standard is hoboken123 Dec 2012 #39

Can you cite specific examples? go west young man Dec 2012 #40

I love his music, but Lennon was a shit sometimes to a lot of people, male and female. edbermac Dec 2012 #42

I can think of quite a few far more "notorious woman-abusers" thucythucy Dec 2012 #45

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So I guess you'll be getting rid of that KINGS avatar then? progressoid Dec 2012 #77

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