WASTED LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

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 Killing isn't my idea of fun (Chorus) They wanna waste my life

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

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

time to take your part in the parade Yet you sound like your father and I don't want to be mean But did you never want to break away And your head is full of answers with no questioning And your life

STATE OF EMERGENCY Stiff Little Fingers

look for solutions But there's none you can find You believe in something That's only in your mind You're looking around you But hate has made you blind And you've spent the last ten years of your life

HALF A LIFE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

what you've done" And 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

ROARING BOYS (PART ONE) Stiff Little Fingers

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 come into town just to make some noise Oh the life

BULLETPROOF Stiff Little Fingers

A lot of people come to me And talk at my face Try to tell me all that's wrong in my life They give me all of their opinions And their strongly held convictions And all of them sure that they're

IS THAT WHAT YOU FOUGHT THE WAR FOR? Stiff Little Fingers

And I wonder if you understand at all And I wonder if you ever ask yourself When everyone has an equal chance to live the life they buy When free health care can save your life, but queue until you

THE PRICE OF ADMISSION Stiff Little Fingers

just can't tell her Yet that's a lie and you know full well You have to pay the price of admission You have to pay the price of admission You have to pay the price of admission Sometime in your life

NO FAITH Stiff Little Fingers

help you But you only pushed me away I tried to listen Then I heard you say: Chorus: No Faith No Hope No Love No Charity Nada nada nada nada mas (repeat) I hope you'll be happy Living the life

Is That What You Fought The War For Stiff Little Fingers

And I wonder if you ever ask yourself When everyone has an equal chance to live the life they buy When free health care can save your life.

GOTTA GETTAWAY Stiff Little Fingers

don't speak the same language as you (Chorus:) They wanna have me here Have me and hold me near Hold me down fasten and tie But the cars are all flashing me Bright lights are passing me I feel life

BARBED WIRE LOVE Stiff Little Fingers

barbed wire love Throw my leg over barbed wire love Barbed wire love snags my jeans Barbed wire love When I fell it was awful nice Caught when not suspecting vice The night was rife with wasteland life

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 life

WHAT DOES IT TAKE Stiff Little Fingers

The smallest goal in life's worth having You need the purpose You need the ideal Or the dream Don't waste the impulse or the longing Most precious thing We have in life is time So use it right

IN YOUR HAND Stiff Little Fingers

you You've made your mind up There's nothing we can do Gets worse every day You'd think you had it planned Throw it all away Chorus rpt: In your hand but you won't use it Rather throw your life

BREAKOUT Stiff Little Fingers

give a damn 'Cos when I get it I spend it fast as I can Ain't got no worries, at least none I can see Gotta make a fast connection then I'll be free I gotta (Chorus:) Break out and leave this life

HUMAN SHIELD Stiff Little Fingers

How do you propose to live your life in times like these Growing up surrounded by the fear and hate disease I believe that we all need protection from the world And our friends enfold us like a barrier

SHE GREW UP Stiff Little Fingers

I'd met her looking for fun, out on her own Now she had a kid in the plan, and a husband at home But she's got a hold of her life, and she's taking a chance She's in a job that she likes, and she still

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER Stiff Little Fingers

Is this the only life we're gonna have?

STRAW DOGS Stiff Little Fingers

let's go far to the new frontier It's in the blood defending near and dear Action men must sterling be Fight for freedom but not for free (Chorus) A man must do what he must do To prove what life

NO SURRENDER Stiff Little Fingers

restored, to hell with what he's like Our man sells us oil and petrol at a price that's fair Our man kills collaborators in the Public Square (Chorus) I believe in hopes and dreams, I believe in life

Gate 49 Stiff Little Fingers

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 way out to be free to be me I may be tired of life

PICCADILLY CIRCUS Stiff Little Fingers

a hi-fi shop Footsteps, a chuckle and one hard slap And they didn't even see his face See him flinch or hear him groan They didn't even see his eyes One mean blow and on they ran He put his fingers

AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers

don't shout about it That's your lot remember you're a kid They would always teach me that to swear was a sin Always speak your mind but not aloud Think of something that you want to do with your life

SAFE AS HOUSES Stiff Little Fingers

She makes a home and she stays mum About the things she might have done She keeps her eyes firm on the ground, to set her own life Makes up her face and not her mind, to be a wife There was a time

NO LAUGHING MATTER Stiff Little Fingers

You tell me all your tales and your stories You give me all your theories on life How nothing that I say ever matters And nothing I do's ever right The world's put here just to pass your time You

JOHNNY WAS Stiff Little Fingers

stray bullet Woman hold her head and cry Accompanying her was a passerby Who saw the woman cry Wondering can she work it out Now she knows that the wages of sin is death The gift of God is life

TIN SOLDIER Stiff Little Fingers

you sign away your youth Tin soldier, you go and join the queue Tin soldier, do what they want you to Tin soldier, they take away your name Tin soldier, they treat you all the same Sign away your life

KICKING UP A RACKET Stiff Little Fingers

up a racket Kicking up a racket I don't smoke and I don't drink But like to see the max lights blink They say that they can't sleep a wink But I don't want to hear me think Life's no fun and life

WALK AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

fist No point in calculating what they've missed That's what we made them, it's not their fault We just ignored them when they needed taught You hear a voice from inside your head Saying "With that life

WELCOME TO THE WHOLE WEEK Stiff Little Fingers

makes you feel that you're yourself Some of you have got it in for me I don't need that or your sympathy So I have no job, welcome to the whole week If you don't mind, I've decided to live my life

EACH DOLLAR A BULLET Stiff Little Fingers

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 of my own life

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

take any chance Drown you brain in the rave machine and dance, boy dance You got one last shot here to change your world yeah, one last push just might make it work But you sit on you arse watch you life

BE SEEING YOU Stiff Little Fingers

Scams and lies and alibis Are all your stock in trade Spin me round, I'm upside down And I don't know the date I feel outsmarted deceived and deluded Completely inverted and unaware Of all the cha...

COLD Stiff Little Fingers

Sometimes it's fine, sometimes I know just what it's all worth Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it feels like heaven on earth Then other times you scream at me, the hate freezes your soul And it's c...

ALL I NEED Stiff Little Fingers

When you're facing up to trouble And your mind has drawn a blank You've no money in your pocket Even less stashed in the bank When your friends seem to desert you And your family's offside Want to...

Suspect Device Stiff Little Fingers

Inflammable material is planted in my head It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead Their solutions are our problems They put up the wall On each side time and prime us And make sure we get fuc...

LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Stiff Little Fingers

You can't move You got tears from your little sister Crying cos she don't have a dress without a patch in For the party to go Aw, but you know she'll get by cos she's....

HURRICANE Stiff Little Fingers

Hey you, yeah I'm trying to get through Past that chip upon your shoulder Come here need a word in your ear This can't go on much longer You break what we try to create And I'm sure that you enjoy...

NO MORE OF THAT Stiff Little Fingers

They never ask us if we want a war Who do they think they're talkin' for Cos we never get no say They have to have it all their way (Chorus:) Oh, we want no more of that You can't push us under t...

TALKBACK Stiff Little Fingers

Every time I go to speak my mind you just ignore me Every time I try to have my say you have it for me They say there's freedom of speech But when I try to make free you say Don't you talk back t...

HARP Stiff Little Fingers

Don't pity this poor immigrant My eyes were open when I caught the boat All I wanted was your shelter, and maybe just a little hope But you turned your anger on me for the courage that you lack I

THE MESSAGE Stiff Little Fingers

Broken glass everywhere People pissing on the station Y'know they just don't care I can't take the smell I can't take the noise I got no money to move out I guess I got no choice Rats in the front...

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 ...

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

roots, you radicals, you rock to the reggae You roots, you radicals, you dub to the reggae You roots, you radicals, you skank to the reggae, you roots Love and respect you itren and protect your 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 ...

MY EVER CHANGING MORAL STANCE Stiff Little Fingers

Well, I find it hard to concentrate While you sit there and contemplate Why success is such an aphrodisiac Cos when push comes down to shove And you start to talk of love I don't know why I don't ...

LAST TRAIN FROM THE WASTELAND Stiff Little Fingers

Arise! You've listened to too many liars too long And too many were your masters You've got the chance here to right all the wrong Don't squander it on disaster You're standing in a bright new da...