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I chose this song because it represents Shukhov’s plight and how the workers in the labor camp have to work hard. In this section, the 104th division has to go to a power station and then an auto-repair shop. Another group of men is digging holes in the frozen ground, a nearly impossi-ble feat. Also, the song talks about disillusionment after working hard, similar to how men in the working camp had a hard time returning to society or were kept at the labor camp.
As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so ------- crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and class less and free
But you're still ------- peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
“Working Class Hero” by John Lennon
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