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Take It Or Leave It
Hovercraft song file · /lyrics/take-it-or-leave-it/
01 / The words
Wildman / Marsden / Downing / Downing · Lyrics: Wildman
From the 1996 sessions · Reconstructed 2026 · Doomed To Live, Side D
Don't need no violent revolution Drop the gun We gotta live as one Won't achieve a thing with persecution Live as one Follow the sun You see we're all in this thing together Like it or not, you gotta give it a shot It's now or never it's the game of life, independent so Got to roll with the punches gotta go with the flow You gotta push your little psyche to another dimension Divine intervention ain't no human invention The seeds you sow better let them grow If you seed the field then you'll be the reaper And it really doesn't matter if you're rich or poor Cause no class hate is gonna win you the war It's not about money, it's not about drugs It's not about envy, it's all about love Love is the teacher, love is the key Love is within you, love is without you Take it or leave it, the choice is yours Believe it, the bodies are falling about you So let me be your brother Let me be your friend Let me fight beside you 'Til the very end I tell you genocidal tendencies are silly to extreme After all you're still quite small, you don't know where you've been You were only swearing yesterday Now you wanna win the world away But you haven't got anything left to say So let me be your brother Let me be your friend Let me fight beside you Till the very end Don't need no violent revolution Drop the gun We gotta live as one Won't achieve a thing with persecution Live as one Follow the sun Follow the sun Follow the sun
03 / The dossier
About this song.
- Written by
- Piers "Charlie Pepper" Wildman
- Work
- Original
Hovercraft’s nearest thing to a manifesto: anti-violence, anti-persecution, suspicious of grand ideology and reaching towards solidarity. Its awkward slogans remain part of the historical song.
04 / The artwork
Visualising the song.
04 / The archive
