ROARING BOYS (PART ONE) Stiff Little Fingers

Paddy is waiting in Drogheda town For the train to carry him south Another drunken night on the town Messing around The Roaring Boys, the roaring boys It's all the same to the roaring boys They

ROARING BOYS (PART TWO) Stiff Little Fingers

they'll all know my name They all know my name Hey Charlie can you lend us a tenner Just until Saturday night You know I'll pay you back man You know I'll see you right cos Chorus: I am a roaring

Stiff Little Fingers The Vibrators

Hangs a naked light over your face shines electric ness upon your bed if it wasn't for your stiff little fingers nobody would know you were dead you never really did much living you mainly sat and watched

HITS AND MISSES Stiff Little Fingers

Look at him in every face The woman see and takes her place He rips at her heart, till death them part Everywhere she see his power Sees how Michael Caine takes a shower See herself in houseproud

FORENSIC EVIDENCE Stiff Little Fingers

listen when I talk Made your mind up in advance And I'm going to take that walk Chorus: You based your case on circumstance That's all it was and ever will be And I never stood a chance The old boys

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

mind has gone astray And they'll do your thinking anyway And your head is full of ideas that don't mean a thing With your new sense of duty and your brain washed shiny clean It's time to take your part

BACK TO FRONT Stiff Little Fingers

He's not like us he must be done Buckets and spades to make your day with It hurts so good it must be fun (Chorus:) And it's "Made in London town Fists are up to knuckle down Because we are the boys

STRAW DOGS Stiff Little Fingers

All things are relative with cousins everywhere Hard-nosed blue-eyed boys, intelligent and fair You gotta pitch in for your kith and kin Holding the line to save our skin Pound for pound we'll take

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER Stiff Little Fingers

What we need is (Chorus) They say they've got control of you But that's not true you know They say they're a part of you And that's a lie you know They say you will never be Free free free

THE ONLY ONE Stiff Little Fingers

Can no-one else imagine, what can't be said?

YOU NEVER HEAR THE ONE THAT HITS YOU Stiff Little Fingers

You never hear the one that hits you, no!

WAIT AND SEE Stiff Little Fingers

see' Then came the day you said goodbye We tried to smile but had to cry You knew that you'd be missed And we wished you all the best But still we wished you would stay Till then you were a part

WHEN THE STARS FALL FROM THE SKY Stiff Little Fingers

Mid-October, sixty one, the french police were having fun Cutting down Algerians, breaking heads all over town Yet no-one saw, no-one knew and no-one dared to speak the truth 200 dead became just

WALK AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

stop You hear a voice from the alleyway Saying "Come here boy don't I know your name" And there's no use in running so you gotta stay It's easier to fight, harder just to walk away The corner boys

Go For It Stiff Little Fingers

You got to pass the bowl and make the food go round 'Cos that's the only way to trample crime to the ground Equal rights and justice for one and all 'Cos only through liberty freedom shall form Don't fight

Roots Radicals Rockers And Reggae Stiff Little Fingers

you skank to the reggae Let there be peace in the east, peace in the west You roots, you radicals and all the rest Peace up north, peace down south Peace in the ghettoes all round about We are all in a one

EACH DOLLAR A BULLET Stiff Little Fingers

ground Each rumour a bullet Each victim someone's son And careless talk kills Irishmen As surely as if words fired the gun Well it's lasted for so long now And so many have died It's such a part

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

you roots Let there be peace in the east, peace in the west You roots, you radicals and all the rest I said peace up north, peace down south Peace in the ghettoes all round about We are all in a one

Sad Eyed People Stiff Little Fingers

Sad-eyed people sat in bars Sad-eyed People sat in bars In the corner there's the party with the birthday Its quite happy but its quite sad because no one's there and no one cares Least of all me Sad-eyed

TINDERBOX Stiff Little Fingers

Then the rain came down And washed all hope away And your life's a train But it only goes one way What about the times when you were happy Balance them against the times you're sad Was there once

STAND UP AND SHOUT Stiff Little Fingers

with us now don't be a name without a face (Chorus:) Stand up and shot for what you want to be Stand up and shout what you believe Stand up and shout for those you want to free Stand up for the one

HOPE STREET Stiff Little Fingers

that you never loose the fire Whole lives lived under the burden The strain of the buying age Believe me I know it for certain That you can break from the cage By holding your head high Get a little

ROUGH TRADE Stiff Little Fingers

Record boss said we would be a smash Yeah, go straight to Number One He talked of hits and tours and lots of cash And all the time it wasn't on And I believed every word was true yeah I swallowed

BIG CITY NIGHT Stiff Little Fingers

Cos they're gonna do without you and you're gone Just another big city night Over your shoulder, round every corner Remember what's happened to people you've known Watch for yourself, cos no-one

BABY BLUE (WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN TELLING YOU) Stiff Little Fingers

Always seems to be the same round here Town full of losers all crying in their beer Nobody's willing to take any chance Drown you brain in the rave machine and dance, boy dance You got one last shot

Gate 49 Stiff Little Fingers

don't like it I find that doorway in my mind When I want to be with you I just walk through Gate 49 Just for a time though miles away I can put up with what must be But pretty soon I'll have to take My one

BITS OF KIDS Stiff Little Fingers

drive away, sex and late nights And it's gotta be wrong, because they're so young They're only bits of kids, they're only bits of kids It's always bits of kids today She makes the breakfast, one

PICCADILLY CIRCUS Stiff Little Fingers

beneath the lights Up in town and all alone Got no business so minds his own The hotel room is lonely and cold He might as well go for a stroll Idly looking in a hi-fi shop Footsteps, a chuckle and one

TIN SOLDIER Stiff Little Fingers

22 He joined up for just three years, it seemed a small amount But they didn't tell him that the first two didn't count At the age of 17 how was he to know That at the age of 21 he'd still have one

DEAD OF NIGHT Stiff Little Fingers

of night (I would be there for you) I'd be on your side (My help would see you through) Trust in me don't cry (There now you'll be all right) In the dead of night It happened all so quickly One

FLY THE FLAG Stiff Little Fingers

Gimme a country that's red white and blue Gimme the British way honest and true Gimme the chance to be one of the few Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme Gimme a nation where people are free Free to

Walkin Dynamite Stiff Little Fingers

No one knows exactly where he came from It wassomewhere in arkansaw grew up flat broke with no education Had his run-ins with the law His fists became his passport out of hell When some guys saw he

Closed Groove Stiff Little Fingers

the past Being first just cannot last (Chorus:) Beep beep I'm an answering machine I mean to say I say what I mean Beep beep I've got very strong views Plug in any loop tape you choose My one

YOU CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS Stiff Little Fingers

And if life starts to get you down Don't fall and go under Or if it's pushing you around Don't think of surrender Or if you feel like crying Don't give up you can't give up no Just give it one

HONEYED WORDS Stiff Little Fingers

Time after time The world is pressing down On your shoulders I know how you feel Like you're the only one Taking orders It's hard to come to terms With what seems so unfair But somewhere in your

DUST IN MY EYE Stiff Little Fingers

eye You were my yesterdays I'm looking for tomorrows You keep the fun you had And I will keep the sorrows I know it's over And I'm happy that you're gone At least I realise That I'm the lucky one

THE MESSAGE Stiff Little Fingers

frowning too Because only God knows what you'll go through You'll grow in the ghetto living second rate And your eyes will see a song of deep hate The places you play and where you stay Looks like one

NO CHANGE Stiff Little Fingers

Why can't I get it through That there's no change One day things were oh so right But all that changed overnight And now it seems that all we do is fight Why should things be different now?

FALLING DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

no name and no home to telephone She's hitching rides and sleeping out But she's OK with nowhere else to go So what else can you do but simply pick her up And watch her simply walk away Does no-one

BE SEEING YOU Stiff Little Fingers

hold on just try to hang on Try to pretend we could get somewhere But you're so intent on some pointless diversion We soon reached the point where I just don't care (Chorus) Well, if it ain't one

TALKBACK Stiff Little Fingers

make free you say Don't you talk back to me Don't you talk back to me Don't you talk back to me Every time Every time I ask you to lend an ear I get both together Everything I say just goes in one

HURRICANE Stiff Little Fingers

us up and bind us It's tough no-one's calling your bluff But I have made my mind up Take care now you'd better prepare I've taken my last wind up You stand there smiling Like you weren't the one

WASTED LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

I could be a soldier Go out there and fight to save this land Be a people's soldier Paramilitary gun in hand I won't be a soldier I won't take no orders from no-one Stuff their fucking armies

SAFE AS HOUSES Stiff Little Fingers

bricks But comes the time for him to prove that he's a man now He gets a wife and makes his move to three doors down He's playing, playing safe Playing houses, safe as houses For there was no-one

HALF A LIFE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

the whole town they agreed Chorus: They picked you up and they sent you down A poor black boy in a rich white town And for 38 years you never made a sound That was half a life away You see one

THE NIGHT THAT THE WALL CAME DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

Maybe you remember, before the wall came down How we hated one another from the other side of town Now I'm an old man And an old man can see All that hate can leave you with It's just photographs

Can'T Get Away With That Stiff Little Fingers

You had us almost believing we were good enough for no one, no how You had us take it or leave it, it's the best deal you're gonna get right now son a little dig here, a little word did you really think

Guitar And Drum Stiff Little Fingers

music makes you strong I believe in the power of guitar & drum Well theirs are songs about heartbreak Theirs are songs about love Theirs are songs about sex sung by an eight year old And there's no-one

MY EVER CHANGING MORAL STANCE Stiff Little Fingers

stay here any longer Then I'm bound to crack When I think of all the lies I've told It's a wonder I can stand myself Chorus I didn't dream my being here would hurt you I didn't mean to hurt no-one

STANDS TO REASON Stiff Little Fingers

all men are rapists Girls today they ask for it, I never touched your mother And youngsters now are all on drugs, yes, thanks, I'll have another Stands to reason Mark my words, take a tip from one