Won'T Be Told Stiff Little Fingers

I don't know But I won't be told the streets of heaven are paved with gold I'm gonna stop looking over my shoulder to check what's right I'm gonna stop thinking it over.

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

WAIT AND SEE Stiff Little Fingers

started we thought we were great Tho' nobody else agreed Just you and I wasting our time Playing and singing out of key And they said we played too loud Cos we didn't play for their crowd We just told

SILVER LINING Stiff Little Fingers

They tell you not to worry, they say they're terribly sorry But that's the way it has to be, for the likes of you and me Just be good and know your station Always look on the bright side Keep you

Suspect Device Stiff Little Fingers

(Chorus:) Don't believe them Don't believe them Don't be bitten twice you gotta suss, suss, suss, suss, suss out Suss suspect device They take away our freedom In the name of liberty Why don't

(I COULD) BE HAPPY YESTERDAY Stiff Little Fingers

Just like the autumn When leaves turn brown and fall upon the ground That's how you left me You just went cold and everything changed round If I could have that time again Would we still be friends

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

LISTEN Stiff Little Fingers

And then you say Chorus Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Why don`t you listen to your heart Listen to your heart This kind of thing keeps me awake at night It gets so I can`t sleep

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

Yes, I know you did your bit back then, but what was it you won? Take a good look around you now, whose side were you on?

Closed Groove Stiff Little Fingers

(Chorus) The case for racism is black and white If you want world peace you've got to fight Must do what you're told to be free Think what you like if you agree with me (Chorus) Speak whenever

TOUCH AND GO Stiff Little Fingers

Looking back it's funny that we never lied That night we met when we were both alone We knew at once that what we'd want was just that night Knew it couldn't be forever, cos we each told of another

THE PRICE OF ADMISSION Stiff Little Fingers

So somebody's told you how to be a man Just fuck 'em and leave 'em And score as many as you can But always have someone who's close to your heart And if you want to keep her, keep her in the dark

Is That What You Fought The War For Stiff Little Fingers

But what was it you won? Take a good look round you now. Whose side were you on? And I wonder if you understand at all.

MY EVER CHANGING MORAL STANCE Stiff Little Fingers

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 get up And give your face a smack When I think of all the lies I've told

NO SURRENDER Stiff Little Fingers

cries, she can't see the reason Your battle cry is 'No surrender here at all' Here's your mask and here's your gun it's no longer a game This is absolute reality though it's not what it seems We told

Frozen Stiff K-Holes

t want a hand, I need no one Trying to sleep on a bed on the floor I hear you, talk behind my back I?m so tired and I can?t get out This cage, I thought this was a game It?

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

TIN SOLDIER Stiff Little Fingers

He joined up to get a job and show he wasn't scared Swapped boy scout hat for army cap, he thought he'd be prepared At the age of 17 he was forced to choose At the age of 21 he's in Catch 22 He

JUST FADE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

She asked for it I told her flat That I don't want no more of that I've really had you up to here And I don't even like you near.

Gate 49 Stiff Little Fingers

When I'm away I think of you And how you're where I want to be And there's on thing I gotta do Get back to you to be free to be me 'cause anytime I don't like it I keep a doorway in my mind When I want

BE SEEING YOU Stiff Little Fingers

Completely inverted and unaware Of all the changes and most of the dangers Yet I've reached the stage where I just don't care Chorus: I tried to believe in you I was only deceived in you So now I'll be

EACH DOLLAR A BULLET Stiff Little Fingers

tell us Just what we're doing wrong Each false word a bullet Each victim someone's son And Englishmen kill Irishmen As surely as if they fired the gun From the minute that you're born you're told

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

STAND UP AND SHOUT Stiff Little Fingers

It's time to ask yourself just what you want to be Just look around tell me exactly what you see No sitting out no chance to settle in your place You're with us now don't be a name without a face

HITS AND MISSES Stiff Little Fingers

Look at every man you meet It can be him on every street The woman's waiting for the next attack Bold black headlines made in dark Show how the man can make his mark The woman learned it from her

HONEYED WORDS Stiff Little Fingers

somewhere in your life You've got someone who cares Chorus: And I'll speak those honeyed words Yeah, I'll speak those honeyed words 'Cos I know them all Don't get worn down It's much too easy to Be

I Waited Stiff Little Fingers

I waited but you never came So everything stayed the same Coulda been great I waited I was still inspired but obviously out of tune I must be dumb as shit to think,we could blow Away these blues

BITS OF KIDS Stiff Little Fingers

full-grown Now they go into pubs, and you're gonna get mugged in my town So you read about it every day, in the headlines How they take and take and drive away, sex and late nights And it's gotta be

BREAKOUT Stiff Little Fingers

Ain't got no money but I don't 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 (

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

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

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER Stiff Little Fingers

can take it or leave it What we need is (Chorus:) An Alternative Ulster Grab it and change it it's yours Get an Alternative Ulster Ignore the bores and their laws Get an Alternative Ulster Be

TANTALISE Stiff Little Fingers

Well I can't lie and I won't try I ain't waited this long just to hide This could be wrong but I don't mind Can't disguise the way I feel tonight I will be there when you're calling I will catch

STATE OF EMERGENCY Stiff Little Fingers

You're looking for something But what could it be?

AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers

Back when I was younger they were talking at me Never listened to a word I said Always yap yap yapping and complaining at me Made me think I'd be better of dead I don't want to talk about it I

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

HALF A LIFE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

You're about to be history."

DEAD OF NIGHT Stiff Little Fingers

sense of honour Led me to believe I knew the score I can see you in reflections You're there all the time And if only you would let me I'd change my mind Chorus: In the dead of night (I would be

BACK TO FRONT Stiff Little Fingers

summer places Awayday herd, all out in the heat Kicking black looks in sunshine faces A race to vote with their feet Back to front Flock off to find someone to play with He's not like us he must be

STRAW DOGS Stiff Little Fingers

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 the shilling It takes a man to make a killing Action men must sterling be

THE MESSAGE Stiff Little Fingers

sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from going under My son said: "Daddy, I don't wanna go to school Cos the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool And all the kids smoke reefer I think it'd be

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

You 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 Let there be peace in the east, peace in

Roots Radicals Rockers And Reggae Stiff Little Fingers

You 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 Let there be peace in the east, peace in the west You roots

NO FAITH Stiff Little Fingers

your face I tried to 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

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

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 in the parade Yet you sound like your father and I don't want to be

BEIRUT MOON Stiff Little Fingers

you're left to rot Under a Beirut, under a Beirut Moon (Chorus:) Under a Beirut Moon Sorry son, there's nothing we can do Under a Beirut Moon Different rules, we haven't got a clue "We can't be

HERE WE ARE NOWHERE Stiff Little Fingers

Nothing on the telly, there is no late-night show No shows in town, there is no place to go Here we are nowhere, nowhere left to go Is it a crime to be young Cos every time we have some fun They

BULLETPROOF Stiff Little Fingers

my own That you want to get your nose in Now that's a fact, you react Anyway you like And it don't make no difference to me 'Cos I've met your kind in every walk of life And I want you to let me be

STANDS TO REASON Stiff Little Fingers

they say that they are lazy A nice girl won't let you have sex, enjoys it if you make her The media all twist the facts, I read it in the paper Stands to reason You've heard it said so it has to be

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?