working class hero lyrics john lennonHelp with a project on the song Working Class Hero by John Lennon?

For AP US History, were doing a small project. We had to choose a song from a list and write a one page commentary on it including why you picked the song and what the song is about. The paper should also include the pros/cons of the issue at the time the song was popular.

Anyone who is familiar with the song, and knows its meaning, could you give me some guidance?

Also, he wants to know who the "They" mentioned in the song is referring to. And, if anyone knows where I can find an edited version, that would be great as well.

Here are the lyrics:
As soon as youre 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 hworking class hero lyrics john lennonome and they hit you at school
They hate you if youre clever and they despise a fool
Till youre so AV儿劣AV儿劣* crazy you cant follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When theyve tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you cant really function youre 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 youre so clever and classless and free
But youre still AV儿劣AV儿劣* peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Theres room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you wanworking class hero lyrics john lennont 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
The song is a take on the class split of the 1940s and 1950s, and of the 1960s in which he was famous. The song appears to tell the story of someone growing up in the working class. Acccording to Lennon in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in December 1970, it is about working class individuals being processed into the middle classes, into the machine[1]. Lennon stated (in the same interview) that he hoped that it was a warning to the people, a contemporary song for the revolution, for workers, thematically like Give Peace a chance aimed to replace the older songs like We shall overcome.