i'm a better anarchist than you

david rovics

i don't drive a car

'cause they run on gas

but if i did

it'd run on biomass

i ride a bike

or sometimes a skateboard

so fuck off all you drivers

and your yuppie hordes

sitting all day

in the traffic queues

i'm a better anarchist than you

i don't eat meat

i just live on moldy chives

or the donuts that i found

in last week's dumpster dives

look at you people in that restaurant

i think you are so sad

when you coulda been eating bagels

like the ones that i just had

i think it is a shame

all the bourgeois things you do

i'm a better anarchist than you

i don't wear leather

and i like my clothes in black

and i made a really cool hammock

from a moldy coffee sack

i like to hop on freight trains

i think that is so cool

it's so much funner doing this

than being stuck in school

i can't believe you're wearing

those brand new shiny shoes

i'm a better anarchist than you

i don't have sex

and there will be no sequel

because heterosexual relationships

are inherently unequal

i'll just keep moshing

to rancid and the clash

until there are no differences

in gender, race or class

all you brainwashed breeders

you just haven't got a clue

i'm a better anarchist than you

i am not a pacifist

i like throwing bricks

and when the cops have caught me

and i've taken a few licks

i always feel lucky

if i get a bloody nose

'cause i feel so militant

and everybody knows

by the time

the riot is all through

i'm a better anarchist than you

i don't believe in leaders

i think consensus is the key

i don't believe is stupid notions

like representative democracy

whether or not it works

i know it is the case

that only direct action

can save the human race

so when i see you in your voting booths

then i know it's true

i'm a better anarchist than you

august, 2005