HOVERCRAFT

Grimsby 1995 → somewhere in the future

Songbook / words & recordings

Take It Or Leave It

Hovercraft song file · /lyrics/take-it-or-leave-it/

Written by Piers "Charlie Pepper" Wildman

Current recording: Doomed To Live

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

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.

The evidence.

Take It Or Leave It — Handwritten song sheet
Handwritten song sheet 1995–96

Original music and structure sheet for Take It Or Leave It.