STANDS TO REASON Stiff Little Fingers

the greatest They say the blacks get all the jobs, 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

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

IN YOUR HAND Stiff Little Fingers

It's all or nothing That's how you've always been All or nothing With nothing in between You can't compromise You can't quit while you're ahead You won't see reason You think that's giving in

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

COLD Stiff Little Fingers

scream at me, the hate freezes your soul And it's cold, it feels so cold, it's so cold, it's cold Sometimes we smile, sometimes we sit there and laugh out loud Sometimes we smile, sometimes I'd try to

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 computer

THE ROAD TO KINGDOM COME Stiff Little Fingers

more stalling, sleeping in your own doorway They never stop to reason, never question why The world's out there and they don't care, still you're gonna try Hold you down, they hold you down, they'd

WALK AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

as the anger rise You can see excitement in their eyes As they free their aggression in the usual way It's easier to fight, harder just to walk away The streets are empty as you're going home You

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

BACK TO FRONT Stiff Little Fingers

On cheap returns to 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

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

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

NO LAUGHING MATTER Stiff Little Fingers

care for nothing at all This is no laughing matter You seem to have no spark only boredom You seem to have no interests at all You seem to think you're better than others You seem to be just ripe

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

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

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

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

Well you snap to attention 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

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

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

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

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

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

JUST FADE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

She comes around it gets me down But she don't catch a hint I drop She turns up it turns me off And she don't know when to stop. What am I supposed to do? How to gently break the news?

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

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

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

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

DUST IN MY EYE Stiff Little Fingers

I need no help, no aid I don't need your assistance I stand alone my friend And you can walk on by Don't think I'm lonely Cos I'm drinking here alone Sometimes it's easier To spend time on my

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....

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

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

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

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

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?

HERE WE ARE NOWHERE Stiff Little Fingers

Nothing to do, y'know what I mean?

BE SEEING YOU Stiff Little Fingers

know the date I feel outsmarted deceived and deluded 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

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

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

Walkin Dynamite Stiff Little Fingers

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 used them pretty well They'd found something to

ALL THE REST Stiff Little Fingers

He's drinkin' supermarket cider In a doorway in the town And he's shouting 'bout the government And how they let him down He's got a sister lives in Brixton Always tried to do her best Yet she

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

THE ONLY ONE Stiff Little Fingers

again But you can't spit it outside, it's bottled in your brain You feel it in the darkness, the rage inside you grow And you know you're a stranger, in the room below (Chorus:) There are no words to

WHAT DOES IT TAKE Stiff Little Fingers

thing We have in life is time So use it right And it feels like you head's exploding And it feels like you've been set free You've got the hunger and desire You've got the talent Make the move to

WAIT AND SEE Stiff Little Fingers

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 them 'Wait and see' We had no money but still we went on Trying to

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."

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

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

I WANT YOU Stiff Little Fingers

I don't know how to say I think that we should call it a day It's easy to be your slave That's not the way that I want to behave Believed you when you lied Could stop you if I tried Now I reach

ROARING BOYS (PART TWO) Stiff Little Fingers

back man You know I'll see you right cos Chorus: I am a roaring boy A wild colonial boy I'll party all night long Roaring boy Hey Stevie, let's hit the town I've got some money that I want to