BITS OF KIDS Stiff Little Fingers

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 wrong, because they're so young They're only bits

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

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

SAFE AS HOUSES Stiff Little Fingers

schoolyard games, like ma before her She learned girls play the family way' don't look for more She's just playing, playing safe Playing houses, safe as houses Here on this street when they were kids

THE MESSAGE Stiff Little Fingers

head It's like a jungle 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

STANDS TO REASON Stiff Little Fingers

They say all cops are bastard thugs, they're all a bunch of racists The Scots are mean, the Irish mugs, at heart all men are rapists Girls today they ask for it, I never touched your mother And youngsters

STATE OF EMERGENCY Stiff Little Fingers

You 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

DEAD OF NIGHT Stiff Little Fingers

can see you in my mind's eye I have no choice I can hear you in the wild wind I hear your voice Your voice Can't believe it's over I can't believe that I walked out the door A misplaced sense of

STRAW DOGS Stiff Little Fingers

Pound for pound we'll take the shilling It takes a man to make a killing Action men must sterling be Fight for freedom but not for free (Chorus:) Bark and bite, might is right We're the dogs of

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

WHAT IF I WANT MORE? Stiff Little Fingers

I'm sick of being pushed around I'm tired of being forced back down So all your dreams and your ambitions lie there on the floor What if I want more? What if I want more?

THE PRICE OF ADMISSION Stiff Little Fingers

someone who's close to your heart And if you want to keep her, keep her in the dark Cos you love her, so you just can't tell her Yet that's a lie and you know full well You have to pay the price of

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

and pay heed to what they say Cos you know that you please them all that way And you don't need to think now cos your mind has gone astray And they'll do your thinking anyway And your head is full of

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

Guitar And Drum Stiff Little Fingers

smile on demand Cos it makes more money for the company man Well it might make all the young girls hearts beat faster But it don't amuse this cynical old bas'tard I believe I believe in the power of

Two Guitar Clash Stiff Little Fingers

for the vital spark And then it crashed in on my senses with a bang And overtook me with a pleasure oh so strong That had been hidden for so long Like switch a light on in the dark I heard the sound of

JOHNNY WAS Stiff Little Fingers

down in the street and died From a 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

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER Stiff Little Fingers

their laws Get an Alternative Ulster Be an anti-security force Alter your native Ulster Alter your native land Take a look where you're livin' You got the Army on your street And the RUC dog of

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

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

ROARING BOYS (PART ONE) Stiff Little Fingers

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 of

DIE & BURN Stiff Little Fingers

outmoded ideal Are you honestly that stupid or will these wounds never heal (Chorus:) You can keep your flags and emblems I don't need them anymore So just take your age-old hatred and then walk out of

WELCOME TO THE WHOLE WEEK Stiff Little Fingers

And now and then when I'm in the mood I might get up at the crack of noon Then take a wander down to the arcade Might as well clock up a great high score and hang around with my mates before I wander

HOPE STREET Stiff Little Fingers

So you're living on a false reputation You're a big man in this town And it seems by your own estimation That you're a character of renown But it's all deceptive Your facade's defective Yet it's

HALF A LIFE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

The two cops were knocking on the door Of a young black boy It was a quarter to four They said: "Hey nigger! Hit the floor. You're about to be history."

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

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....

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

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

ALL I NEED Stiff Little Fingers

this mess behind you Want to run away and hide Chorus: Then I want it Got to have it Hope is all I need If you feel you're left in darkness If you feel you're on your own And the smallest of

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

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

for Is that why you fought the war Is that what you fought the war for Is that why you fought the war When still the muscles make the man, and men make women pay when Britain's flag is a badge of

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

Closed Groove Stiff Little Fingers

Punctuality's a waste of time Now nostalgia is past its prime History's a thing of the past Being first just cannot last (Chorus:) Beep beep I'm an answering machine I mean to say I say what

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

I WANT YOU Stiff Little Fingers

kiss you adios amigo Because now I understand You make me an embarrassing man Who people see as weak Yet you play upon my greed I wish you didn't satisfy my needs I want you I've lost count of

LISTEN Stiff Little Fingers

It seems so easy in the light of day And when we`re there it always feels OK But then again I`m so alone when I am by myself And can I ever count on someone else?

BEIRUT MOON Stiff Little Fingers

, there's nothing we can do Under a Beirut Moon Different rules, we haven't got a clue "We can't be seen to be giving in To these terrorists you see If we talk with them it would mean the end Of

Is That What You Fought The War For Stiff Little Fingers

And men make women pay When Britain's flag is a badge of hate. And just the fair can play When still the homeless, jobless cry. When money shouts and lies And buys off just enough to vote.

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

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

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

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

EACH DOLLAR A BULLET Stiff Little Fingers

Oh it must seem so romantic When the fighting's over there And they're passing round the shamrock And you're all filled up with tears "For the love of dear old Ireland" That you've never even seen

Suspect Device Stiff Little Fingers

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 fuck all They play their games of

PICCADILLY CIRCUS Stiff Little Fingers

Piccadilly Circus in the bed of night Just passing time 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

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.

WAIT AND SEE Stiff Little Fingers

When we 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

JUST FADE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

She asked me out and I gave in Then she gave out and I felt mean I really want no more of us So I stay home, she comes across.

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