Hawkwind - The Days of the Underground lyrics

In visions of acid we saw through delusion
And brainbox pollution we knew we were right
The streets were our oyster
We smoked Durban Poison
And we turned all this noise on
We knew how to fight
We dropped out and tuned in
Spoke secret jargon and we would not bargain
For what we had found
In the days of the underground

We believed in Guevera
We saw that head held up
And our anger welled up but we kept it cool
No need for machine guns
Cause the system was crumbling
Our leaders were fumbling
While we broke every rule we saw them on TV
They'd blown their cover
And we tried to smother
Their voices with sound
In the days of the underground

Whatever happened to those chromium heroes
Are there none of them still left around
Since the days of the underground?

Now we can look back
At the heroes we were then
We made quite a stir with our sonic attack
Street-fighting dancers
The assassins of silence
With make-believe violence
On a hundred watt stack
They offered us contracts
We said, "we don't need 'em"
We'll just take our freedom
And will not be bound
In the days of the underground

And some of us made it
But not smiling Michael his black motorcycle
Got eaten by rust
And John the Bog dreamt that
He slept at the wheel
But when he woke it was real
Too late to have sussed and Jeff was a poet
Who wrote with a spray can on walls
Saying "Hey man
I believe that we've drowned"
In the days of the underground