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

HERE WE ARE NOWHERE Stiff Little Fingers

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 put us down and

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

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 shadows

Good For Nothing Stiff Little Fingers

you're good for nothing so watch your p's and q's best keep your nose clean and play it by our rules mind your way and don't make waves and you'll get used to knowing you're no use you're good for nothing

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

HITS AND MISSES Stiff Little Fingers

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 dad How he can be like Jack the lad (Chorus:) Hits and

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

DIE & BURN Stiff Little Fingers

You're holding on to something I don't believe is real You're living in the past and you refuse to reappraise Your ridiculous commitment to an outmoded ideal Are you honestly that stupid or will these

A RIVER FLOWING Stiff Little Fingers

done wrong Judgement man Throws away the key Says he's putting me where I belong Government man On my TV screen Telling me what's right for me But the government man On the TV screen Doesn't see

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 (

JUST FADE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

She asks for more and I give less Why can't she see it's obvious I mean no but she takes yes I make it clear but she don't guess.

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 cold

NO CHANGE Stiff Little Fingers

It's not what you used to say Can't you see things my way? I feel so strange I'm still the friend you knew Surely you know it's true?

TALKBACK Stiff Little Fingers

free you say Don't you talk back to me Don't you talk back to me Don't you talk back to me Every time Every time I ask you to lend an ear I get both together Everything I say just goes in one and

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

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

MR FIRE COAL-MAN Stiff Little Fingers

(Chorus:) Hey I hear you calling Mr Fire Coal-Man Come and do your work You never see smoke without fire What you reap you got to sow, now repeat (Chorus) The man who lives by the gun now

WALK AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

You feel the damp in the evening air You see them standing, you can feel their stare You hear their insults, you can hear them shout You try to answer but no words come out Your face gets hotter

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

BEIRUT MOON Stiff Little Fingers

It seems the Americans bargain and rescue But if you get caught 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

Mr Fire Coal Man Stiff Little Fingers

Dodd/arr.Fingers) (Chorus:) Hey I hear you calling Mr Fire Coal-Man Come and do your work You never see smoke without fire What you reap you got to sow, now repeat (Chorus) The man who lives by the gun

STANDS TO REASON Stiff Little Fingers

They say our country's on the rocks and Britain is 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

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

ROARING BOYS (PART TWO) Stiff Little Fingers

Won't you tell me all your cares and problems Won't you tell me why you look so blue I'll take you into town, yeah, show you a thing or two I know every bar and nightclub Yeh, no two will be the

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

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

THE ONLY ONE Stiff Little Fingers

It makes you so angry, You rage and rage 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

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

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

NO FAITH Stiff Little Fingers

You once were my 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 SURRENDER Stiff Little Fingers

seems Although we may want you to kill just do it now for fun You play on the computer screen while these men load your gun Men who only think of fortune no matter the price Men who kill for sand and

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

Won'T Be Told Stiff Little Fingers

And 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

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

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

HALF A LIFE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

Gill and Galloway were working late On a summers night in '58 In a small town Alabama hideaway In the U.S.A.

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

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

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

KICKING UP A RACKET Stiff Little Fingers

I sit and I don't make a sound While I watch the speakers pound And mum shouts up to turn it down Cos I'm waking up half the town But I don't hear a word that's said While the needles hit the red

THE MESSAGE Stiff Little Fingers

not to lose my 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

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

I WANT YOU Stiff Little Fingers

I tried Now I reach out for you just to stay alive I want you I want Won't miss you if you go I'd kiss you adios amigo Because now I understand You make me an embarrassing man Who people see

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

the war's all gone Throw away the fighting and the war's all gone Throw away the grudges and the war's all gone.

Roots Radicals Rockers And Reggae Stiff Little Fingers

You roots, you radicals, you skank to the reggae Love and respect your itren and protect your little sistren And the same shall return to you, my friend Don't fight against no colour class or creed For

Go For It Stiff Little Fingers

You got to pass the bowl and make the food go round 'Cos that's the only way to trample crime to the ground Equal rights and justice for one and all 'Cos only through liberty freedom shall form Don't fight

TOUCH AND GO Stiff Little Fingers

then found something al our own (Chorus:) We both agreed we felt the need that goes skin deep We said up front that's all we'd want and so We took the love that felt so good and had to be Just

LAW AND ORDER Stiff Little Fingers

Everybody's down in the centre of town Doing nothing wrong we're only hangin' around They put you up against the wall Make loud mouthed jokes just to make you feel small Laugh at your appearance and

Guitar And Drum Stiff Little Fingers

Well you get you entertainment Through a corporate plan Via 5 young athletes in a dancing band Who are trained to act moronically And smile on demand Cos it makes more money for the company man Well