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

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

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.

THE PRICE OF ADMISSION Stiff Little Fingers

you know full well You have to pay the price of admission You have to pay the price of admission You have to pay the price of admission Sometime in your life Somewhere along the line And now she

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

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

FALLING DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

more The room jumps hot and chucked aside The empty cans teeter across the floor But at the edge the girl who shows in every crowd And never seems to have enough Is tossed by waves of sound and up

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

JOHNNY WAS Stiff Little Fingers

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 can she

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....

BITS OF KIDS Stiff Little Fingers

How they take and take and drive away, sex and late nights And it's gotta be wrong, because they're so young They're only bits of kids, they're only bits of kids It's always bits of kids today She

HITS AND MISSES Stiff Little Fingers

Look at him in every face The woman see and takes her place He rips at her heart, till death them part Everywhere she see his power Sees how Michael Caine takes a shower See herself in houseproud

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

STAND UP AND SHOUT Stiff Little Fingers

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 (Chorus:) Stand up

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

MY EVER CHANGING MORAL STANCE Stiff Little Fingers

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 get up

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

WAIT AND SEE Stiff Little Fingers

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 smashed up

THE ONLY ONE Stiff Little Fingers

you keep your temper It proves that you're still alive It makes you so angry, a rage that's all your own It makes you fell so lonely, but you're not alone For I still feel it that way, and he and she

BEIRUT MOON Stiff Little Fingers

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 the rules Keep your chin up

NO SURRENDER Stiff Little Fingers

Men who kill for sand and petrol never thinking twice (Chorus:) So let the young men fight, die in battle for the glory And we know it's right so shoot son never worry That your mother cries, she

HURRICANE Stiff Little Fingers

chaos rages round you You're sure that you're not to blame I know your name Hurricane You smile as you flatter and lie And twist the knife behind us So what if the problems we've got Will tie us up

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

YOU NEVER HEAR THE ONE THAT HITS YOU Stiff Little Fingers

Well, you work real hard and you stay in line Got your nose to the grindstone all the time Then they say, "I'm sorry and I know it's hard But there ain't no work, just pick up your cards" And you

THE MESSAGE Stiff Little Fingers

Looks like one great big alleyway You'll admire all the number book takers The pimps the pushers and the big money makers Driving great big cars spending twenties and tens And you want to grow up

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

IN YOUR HAND Stiff Little Fingers

only help you'll take Chorus: It's in your hand The power to change To make a stand To come of age It's in your hand It's worse than pointless To try to talk to you You've made your mind up

BACK TO FRONT Stiff Little Fingers

Flock off to find someone to play with He's not like us he must be done Buckets and spades to make your day with It hurts so good it must be fun (Chorus:) And it's "Made in London town Fists are up

TANTALISE Stiff Little Fingers

that this feels like a dream Won't deal in dreams I've put them all aside And I believe I've changed for good I feel so strong I know this must be right Just your presence makes me hazy You whip me up

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

MR FIRE COAL-MAN Stiff Little Fingers

What you reap you got to sow, now repeat (Chorus) The man who lives by the gun now bound to die by the gun now repeat (Chorus twice) The youths are wailing in the streets now Jacky get up

Mr Fire Coal Man Stiff Little Fingers

smoke without fire What you reap you got to sow, now repeat (Chorus) The man who lives by the gun now bound to die by the gun now repeat (Chorus twice) The youths are wailing in the streets now Jacky get up

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

TOUCH AND GO Stiff Little Fingers

we'd want was just that night Knew it couldn't be forever, cos we each told of another And then found something al our own (Chorus:) We both agreed we felt the need that goes skin deep We said up

WASTED LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

freedom-seeking hordes (Chorus) I'm not gonna be taken in They said if I don't join I just can't win I've heard that story many times before And every time I threw it out the door Still they come up

WHEN THE STARS FALL FROM THE SKY Stiff Little Fingers

all over town Yet no-one saw, no-one knew and no-one dared to speak the truth 200 dead became just two, sweep them in the river The witnesses were run to ground, put the bastards underground Round up

FORENSIC EVIDENCE Stiff Little Fingers

who says I'm guilty by my eyes You got lie detectors That you never use But I'm the only person here Who knows the truth But you never here my voice Never listen when I talk Made your mind up

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

HALF A LIFE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

Pop Bickham was the young black man He couldn't work it out, he didn't understand But when they come with their guns you do what you can So he picked up his rifle and he shot them down They said he

THE NIGHT THAT THE WALL CAME DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

man's haste Will challenge every law So he'll try to break out but there's never a doubt That he is bound to fall Then there's all the lies they tell you And the lies you tell yourself So you end up

WHAT IF I WANT MORE? Stiff Little Fingers

I'm fed up hearing "No can do."

HONEYED WORDS Stiff Little Fingers

them all Don't get worn down It's much too easy to Be defeated Stand strong and proud And let them know That you won't be beaten And if you start to waver Or you start to shake Just stand up

STANDS TO REASON Stiff Little Fingers

older, they say it's so But come again, question it when you see it doesn't fit And you never get the truth if you never ask yourself So you ask me what's the score Well, I can only say to make up

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

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

COLD Stiff Little Fingers

it feels so cold, it's so cold, it's cold But I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry anymore Sometimes we fight, sometimes we stand toe to toe and shout Sometimes we fight, sometimes I want to get up

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

Gate 49 Stiff Little Fingers

trip I'll fly so high to be free to be me 'cause anytime I don't like it I find that doorway in my mind When I want to be with you I just walk through Gate 49 Just for a time though miles away I can put up

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

NO LAUGHING MATTER Stiff Little Fingers

Nothing seems to get to you Nothing gets through at all This is no laughing matter I'll take away what few friends are left you I'll show them all what fools we have been We'll leave you right up