When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come?
 
 With your hands on your head or on the trigger of your gun
 
 When the law break in, how you gonna go?
 
 Shot down on the pavement or waiting on death row
 
  
  You can crush us, you can bruise us
 
 But you'll have to answer to, oh, the guns of Brixton
 
 The money feels good and your life you like it well
 
 But surely your time will come as in heaven, as in hell
  
 
 You see, he feels like Ivan, born under the Brixton Sun
 
 His game is called survivin' at the end of the harder they come
 
 You know it means no mercy, they caught him with a gun
 
 No need for the Black Maria, goodbye to the Brixton Sun
  
 
 You can crush us, you can bruise us
 
 Yes, even shoot us, but oh, the guns of Brixton
 
 When they kick at your front door, how you gonna come?
 
 With your hands on your head or on the trigger of your gun
  
 
 You can crush us, you can bruise us
 
 Yes, even shoot us, but oh, the guns of Brixton
 
  Shot down on the pavement, waiting in death row
 
 His game is called survivin' as in heaven as in hell
  
 
 You can crush us, you can bruise us
 
 But you'll have to answer to, oh, the guns of Brixton
 
 Oh, the guns of Brixton
 
 Oh, the guns of Brixton
 
 Oh, the guns of Brixton