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.

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

WALK AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

answer but no words come out Your face gets hotter 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

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

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

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 ideas that don't mean a

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

IN YOUR HAND Stiff Little Fingers

You won't see reason You think that's giving in We try to tell you But you're not listening Now I realise The only help you'll take Chorus: It's in your hand The power to change To make a

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

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

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

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

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 (

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

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

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

you roots Let there be peace in the east, peace in the west You roots, you radicals and all the rest I said peace up north, peace down south Peace in the ghettoes all round about We are all in a

Roots Radicals Rockers And Reggae Stiff Little Fingers

you skank to the reggae Let there be peace in the east, peace in the west You roots, you radicals and all the rest Peace up north, peace down south Peace in the ghettoes all round about We are all in a

Go For It Stiff Little Fingers

the ground Equal rights and justice for one and all 'Cos only through liberty freedom shall form Don't fight against no color, class Nor creed for on discrimination Does violence breed We are all in a

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

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?

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

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

STATE OF EMERGENCY Stiff Little Fingers

You look for a hero Well don't look at me 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

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

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

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

Take a good look around you now, whose side were you on?

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

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

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 fuck

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

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

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

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

Is That What You Fought The War For Stiff Little Fingers

Take a good look round you now. Whose side were you on? And I wonder if you understand at all.

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

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

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

STRAW DOGS Stiff Little Fingers

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 take the shilling It takes a

WAIT AND SEE Stiff Little Fingers

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 get some gear A

THE MESSAGE Stiff Little Fingers

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 room Roaches in the back Junkies in the alley with a

ROARING BOYS (PART ONE) Stiff Little Fingers

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 come into town just to make some noise Oh the life

EACH DOLLAR A BULLET Stiff Little Fingers

shamrock And you're all filled up with tears "For the love of dear old Ireland" That you've never even seen You throw in twenty dollars And sing "Wearing of the Green" (Chorus:) Each dollar a

NO SURRENDER Stiff Little Fingers

And we know it's right so shoot son never worry That your mother cries, she can't see the reason Your battle cry is 'No surrender here at all' Here's your mask and here's your gun it's no longer a

THE ROAD TO KINGDOM COME Stiff Little Fingers

Your family can't help you, they're standing in your way Tight restrictions, contradictions, more rules every day Hold you down, they'll hold you down, you've got to get away London's calling, no

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

GOTTA GETTAWAY Stiff Little Fingers

don't speak the same language as you (Chorus:) They wanna have me here Have me and hold me near Hold me down fasten and tie But the cars are all flashing me Bright lights are passing me I feel life

YOU CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS Stiff Little Fingers

And if life starts to get you down Don't fall and go under Or if it's pushing you around Don't think of surrender Or if you feel like crying Don't give up you can't give up no Just give it one

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 life

FALLING DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

out She's got no name and no home to telephone She's hitching rides and sleeping out But she's OK with nowhere else to go So what else can you do but simply pick her up And watch her simply walk away

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

BITS OF KIDS Stiff Little Fingers

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 every day, in the headlines How they take and take and drive away