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

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

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

And I wonder if you understand at all And I wonder if you ever ask yourself When everyone has an equal chance to live the life they buy When free health care can save your life, but queue until you

Is That What You Fought The War For Stiff Little Fingers

And I wonder if you ever ask yourself Is that what you fought the war for. Is that what you fought the war for Is that what you fought the war for.

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

HOPE STREET Stiff Little Fingers

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 what's expected When you're really just the

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

Gate 49 Stiff Little Fingers

I don't like it I keep a doorway in my mind When I want to be with you I just walk through Gate 49 It gets me down and makes me sick To be somewhere I hate to be So I'll escape I'll take a trip I'll fly

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

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

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

all gone Throw away the hunger and 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.

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

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

YOU NEVER HEAR THE ONE THAT HITS YOU Stiff Little Fingers

You never hear the one that hits you, no!

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

LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Stiff Little Fingers

Living on Government hand-outs Water in the milk from a hole in the roof Where the rain comes through What can you do?

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

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

AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers

but not aloud Think of something that you want to do with your life Nothing that you like that's not allowed I've no time to talk about it All your stupid hopes and dreams Get your feet back on the

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

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

Two Guitar Clash Stiff Little Fingers

Though up till then I'd thought that what I had was fine I realized then as the earth moved that first time That I had had more here inside Just waiting for the vital spark And then it crashed in on my

Guitar And Drum Stiff Little Fingers

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 held in a song I believe

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

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

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

HUMAN SHIELD Stiff Little Fingers

How do you propose to live your life in times like these Growing up surrounded by the fear and hate disease I believe that we all need protection from the world And our friends enfold us like a barrier

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

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

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

A RIVER FLOWING Stiff Little Fingers

Judgement man On the bench again Telling me what I've 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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

FORENSIC EVIDENCE Stiff Little Fingers

You got the lawyers and establishment You got the proof You got public opinion And it's all the truth You got first rate witnesses Straight from the scene So the only person guilty In this court

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

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

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER Stiff Little Fingers

Nothin' for us in Belfast The Pound's so old it's a pity OK, there's the Trident in Bangor Then walk back to the city We ain't got nothin' but they don't really care They don't even know you know

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

BEIRUT MOON Stiff Little Fingers

"We'd like to help you." the consul said "But there's nothing we can do Well, you knew the risks when you took the job After all you're not a fool So, don't call me, don't call me I just can't bend

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

Walkin Dynamite Stiff Little Fingers

No one knows exactly where he came from It 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

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

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

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 the

BARBED WIRE LOVE Stiff Little Fingers

I met you in No Man's Land Across the wire we were holding hands Hearts a-bubble in the rubble It was love at bomb site (Chorus:) All you give me is barbed wire love All caught up in barbed wire

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