The story is of a young woman arrested at a demonstration by her policeman ex-boyfriend. People really didn’t get it. The kind who’d notice the reference to the miners’ strike did, but generally speaking it wasn’t thought of as a political song. I don’t think even we realised how political it was. We had other songs which bigged-up Red Action – the element of the Socialist Workers Party who’d fight fascists in the street – so ‘Hippychick’ seemed quite mild.
I missed the meaning at the time. To me it was this upbeat acid house song.
“Got no flowers your gun” is a direct reference to an iconic photo taken at a 1967 anti war march at the Pentagon of a protester putting a flower in a soilders gun
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Professionally Identified and joined WP August 26, 2013 DSM 5: Autism Spectrum Disorder, DSM IV: Aspergers Moderate Severity.