Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the U.K. Meaning

Song Released: 1976

Anarchy in the U.K. Lyrics

Right ! now ! ha ha ha ha ha

I am an antichrist
I am an anarchist
Don’t know what I want but
I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passer by cos i

I wanna be anarchy !
No dogs body

Anarchy for the u.k it’s coming sometime and...

1. RobbieR

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   Sep 5th 2008 !⃝

   This song is all about being free to live your life with no higher authority. It's also about sticking it back to the man and fighting for what you believe and to be free to do whatever you want. Straying away from what society thinks you should or should not do.
2. anonymous

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   Feb 3rd 2008 !⃝

   You guys are stupid. ever heard of the Velvet Underground. probably not. They started it all. no body knows them. They are responsible for the ramones sex pistols the clash all of them. So you guys are stupid fucks.
3. anonymous

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   Sep 1st 2007 !⃝

   DarkLord, the Sex Pistols weren't the first punk band, but they were the punkiest band, The Ramones changed their style after the Sex Pistols, becoming punkier.
   
   I think that you should pay close attention to:
   "I don't know what I want but I know how to get it"
   Johnny Rotten is a smart man, so I don't think that he does promote this kind of attitude. I think he mocks mindless anarchists. I've seen him in a T.V. programme and even though he's a little reckless, he has very clear views and thinks that meaningless anarchy against whoever is wrong.
   
   Above all, the idea of anarchy is not the same as how the youth mindlessly employed it. Rotten has a historical knowledge, and I think he disapproves modern day anarchy.
   
   Just listen to the song with this in mind, and see your horizon widen.
   
   It would be so stupid to write these lyrics and actually stand by them. Rotten is too smart for that, he isn't an idiot.
4. DarkLord

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   Mar 7th 2007 !⃝

   That's sooo not true! The first punk rock band were the Ramones, not Sex Pistols!I don't compare these two bands but it's historically incorrect to say Sex Pistols were the first punk rock band ever...Anyway, this song is an Anarchy anthem, 'cause it goes against both religion (I am an anti-christ)and democracy (I am an anarchist).
5. Bstrap000

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   Jan 4th 2007 !⃝

   please explain to me how you know that the sex pistols were the first punk band
6. anonymous

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   Apr 5th 2006 !⃝

   *HELP* I have to interprete this song for a research paper in school... could someone help me and give a more detailed interpretation of it??? That would be great... :)
7. ILuvKurtCobain

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   Feb 19th 2006 !⃝

   Exactly, Sex Pistols are true punk rockers and that's all they believed in was Anarchy!

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
8. jim morrison

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   Jun 18th 2005 !⃝

   This is a song simply about bringing in anarchistic themes. Okay, so this has been done before right, it's standard punk rock stuff right? Wrong, they did it *first* the sex pistols are true punk

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