HOPE STREET Stiff Little Fingers

own estimation That you're a character of renown But it's all deceptive Your facade's defective Yet it's what's expected When you're really just the same as all of us Chorus You're living on Hope

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

NO FAITH Stiff Little Fingers

friend You once cared for the human race Now I see avarice written across 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

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

JOHNNY WAS Stiff Little Fingers

Woman hold her head and cry Cause her son had been shot 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

DIE & BURN Stiff Little Fingers

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 the door I hope

Guitar And Drum Stiff Little Fingers

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 guitar & drum I believe in the hope

GOTTA GETTAWAY Stiff Little Fingers

Gotta gotta gettaway, gotta gotta gettaway You know there ain't no street like home To make you feel so all alone Plenty of folk to tell you what to do But they don't speak the same language as

FORENSIC EVIDENCE Stiff Little Fingers

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 network's stronger than me My friends and relations Never gave up hope

ALL I NEED Stiff Little Fingers

Even less stashed in the bank When your friends seem to desert you And your family's offside Want to leave this mess behind you Want to run away and hide Chorus: Then I want it Got to have it Hope

WHAT IF I WANT MORE? Stiff Little Fingers

I'm hacked off listening to you Just because you've given in, that doesn't mean they have to win Scraps of hope from rich man's table fall down on the floor What if I want more?

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER Stiff Little Fingers

Ulster Ignore the bores and 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

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

A RIVER FLOWING Stiff Little Fingers

river flowing And you can't turn the river round We are a river flowing Why don't you jump in the river and drown Police man On the beat again Beating all that he can find Criminal man On the street

SAFE AS HOUSES Stiff Little Fingers

through dolls and 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

DEAD OF NIGHT Stiff Little Fingers

Walk the streets at midnight As the rain pours down and freezes on the ground Lean against a street light Try to work out where it all went wrong I can see you in my mind's eye I have no choice

LAW AND ORDER Stiff Little Fingers

justice just isn't fair (Chorus) I'm not trying to say we're always right No-one's saying that it's black and white All I'm saying is we don't agree I don't think like you don't think like me I hope

Won'T Be Told Stiff Little Fingers

start tonight Do it fast or do it slow Do it once then let it go I don't know I don't know I don't know But I won't be told You're gonna stop looking over my shoulder to see what I'm at Okay, You're a little

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

, yet you're older by years Well you snap to attention and pay heed to what they say Cos you know that you please them all that way So I won't try to change you, you can carry on that way But I hope

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

WAIT AND SEE Stiff Little Fingers

We had no money but still we went on Trying to get some gear A smashed up cymbal and an old snare drum Our financial state was clear And they said we should give up They said we didn't have a hope

THE NIGHT THAT THE WALL CAME DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

trapped inside Only living in her heart So what use, the lies they tell you Or the lies you tell yourself So you end up shouting (Chorus) Oh, oh, oh and don't let them tell you The future holds no hope

BEIRUT MOON Stiff Little Fingers

Back home they'll remember you in papers, on TV Because when you're caught you're left to rot Under a Beirut, under a Beirut Moon (Chorus) And though you dream of being free There's not much hope

THE MESSAGE Stiff Little Fingers

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 cheaper If I just got a job learned to be a street

LAST TRAIN FROM THE WASTELAND Stiff Little Fingers

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 dawn Got hope

WALK AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

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 you'd be better off dead" You know they got no hope

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...

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 (Cho...

SHE GREW UP Stiff Little Fingers

I'd met her before somewhere, I knew the face But she had green spikes in her hair, back in 78 Now the plastic bin liner skirt and the safety pins Have given way to a zip pocket shirt and designer...

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...

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 ...

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 j...

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 tak...

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 ...

BULLETPROOF Stiff Little Fingers

want you to let me be Let me be (Chorus) B.u double l e.t.p.r. double o f I'm not B.u double l e.t.p.r. double o f So for all you instructors, you advisors And tormentors I'd like to give a little

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 And...

BIG CITY NIGHT Stiff Little Fingers

Stop and go on an empty crossing The lights keep changing to only their hum And standing in line along the kerb The bin bags wait till the morning comes You hear yourself walk echo lonely See shad...

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 anothe...

YOU CAN GET IT (IF YOU REALLY WANT) Stiff Little Fingers

Chorus: You can get it if you really want You can get it if you really want You can get it if you really want But you must try Try and try Try and try You'll succeed at last Persecution you must ...

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 Kill...

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 I me...

BITS OF KIDS Stiff Little Fingers

It was nothing like that in my day, not here in my town We didn't get things all our way till we were full-grown Now they go into pubs, and you're gonna get mugged in my town So you read about it ...

NO SURRENDER Stiff Little Fingers

Here's your mask `nd here's your glove, it's all an arcade game We call it 'Virtual Reality' so nothing's what it seems Although we may want you to kill just do it now for fun You play on the comp...