JUST FADE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

Perhaps I should just fade away. She asked me out and I gave in Then she gave out and I felt mean I really want no more of us So I stay home, she comes across.

WALK AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

to walk away The streets are empty as you're going home You got your collar turned against the cold You're tired and hungry and you're fit to drop The rain is pouring won't it ever stop You hear

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

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

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 joined up for just

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

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

ALL I NEED Stiff Little Fingers

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 to leave this mess behind you Want to run away

AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers

your stupid hopes and dreams Get your feet back on the ground son It's exams that count not football teams (Chorus:) And I'm running at the edge of their world They're criticising something they just

Go For It Stiff Little Fingers

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 one and one in all So throw away

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

the guns and the war's 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.

Roots Radicals Rockers And Reggae Stiff Little Fingers

the guns and the war's all gone So throw away the hunger and the war's all gone So throw away the fighting and the war's all gone So throw away the grudges and the war's all gone You roots, you radicals

Suspect Device Stiff Little Fingers

(Chorus:) Don't believe them Don't believe them Don't be bitten twice you gotta suss, suss, suss, suss, suss out Suss suspect device They take away our freedom In the name of liberty Why don't

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

IN YOUR HAND Stiff Little Fingers

of age It's in your hand It's worse than pointless To try to talk to you You've made your mind up There's nothing we can do Gets worse every day You'd think you had it planned Throw it all away

HALF A LIFE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

you've done" And the whole town they agreed Chorus: They picked you up and they sent you down A poor black boy in a rich white town And for 38 years you never made a sound That was half a life away

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

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

WASTED LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

won't take no orders from no-one Stuff their fucking armies Killing isn't my idea of fun (Chorus) They wanna waste my life They wanna waste my time They wanna waste my life And they've stolen it away

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

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

SAFE AS HOUSES Stiff Little Fingers

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 away

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

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

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

BABY BLUE (WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN TELLING YOU) Stiff Little Fingers

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 here to change your world yeah, one last push just

BE SEEING YOU Stiff Little Fingers

round, I'm upside down And I don't 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

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

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

TANTALISE Stiff Little Fingers

Well I can't lie and I won't try I ain't waited this long just to hide This could be wrong but I don't mind Can't disguise the way I feel tonight I will be there when you're calling I will catch

BREAKOUT Stiff Little Fingers

I'm gonna try on my terms this time So if I can do it you can do it too Why don't you try it you've got nothing to lose A boring job living from day to day Do something different try to break away

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

DUST IN MY EYE Stiff Little Fingers

I'm lonely Cos I'm drinking here alone Sometimes it's easier To spend time on my own Chorus: You didn't mean to make me sad You didn't aim to make me cry I wouldn't really feel so bad It's just

NO CHANGE Stiff Little Fingers

I try to talk but you just row It seem that's how you want it anyhow Why can't you just see It's you who's changed not me?

(I COULD) BE HAPPY YESTERDAY Stiff Little Fingers

Just like the autumn When leaves turn brown and fall upon the ground That's how you left me You just went cold and everything changed round If I could have that time again Would we still be friends

DIE & BURN Stiff Little Fingers

reappraise Your ridiculous commitment to an outmoded ideal Are you honestly that stupid or will these wounds never heal (Chorus:) You can keep your flags and emblems I don't need them anymore So just

MY EVER CHANGING MORAL STANCE Stiff Little Fingers

comes down to shove And you start to talk of love I don't know why I don't get up And give your face a smack When I think of all the lies I've told It's a wonder I can stand myself Chorus: It's just

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

HITS AND MISSES Stiff Little Fingers

could be you, it could be me It's someone we all know See him walk down any street The woman fears and hears his feet If his team lost, then she get beat Neighbours shrug, go back to chatter Just

HOPE STREET Stiff Little Fingers

reputation 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

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

SHE GREW UP Stiff Little Fingers

a kid in the plan, and a husband at home But she's got a hold of her life, and she's taking a chance She's in a job that she likes, and she still loves to dance (Chorus) She said that she was just

ROUGH TRADE Stiff Little Fingers

you" Music is money, kids are no-account fools You trade in us, we get betrayed by you (Chorus) And you're sitting there in your London office Snug and warm And you think that you've won but Just

BIG CITY NIGHT Stiff Little Fingers

all on your own The night is dark as a car crawls by And the road goes on and on They don't even care about you They never even think about you Cos they're gonna do without you and you're gone Just

TOUCH AND GO Stiff Little Fingers

Looking back it's funny that we never lied That night we met when we were both alone We knew at once that what we'd want was just that night Knew it couldn't be forever, cos we each told of another

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

why you fought the war Is that what you fought the war for Is that why you fought the war When still the muscles make the man, and men make women pay when Britain's flag is a badge of hate, and just

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

With your new sense of duty and your brain washed shiny clean It's time to take your part in the parade Yet you sound like your father and I don't want to be mean But did you never want to break away

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 MORE OF THAT Stiff Little Fingers

Chorus:) Oh, we want no more of that You can't push us under the mat Oh we want no more of that The man who pulls the trigger's not to blame He's only playing their deadly game And he know he just