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

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

(Chorus) I'm not the sort of man to just leave well alone I feel we're all owed so much more Now they're telling us the world's gone wrong In fact it's been like that all along Not just the ozone

NO SURRENDER Stiff Little Fingers

Here's your mask and here's your gun it's no longer a game This is absolute reality though it's not what it seems We told you we need you to fight for freedom and for right But what we want is our man

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

HOPE STREET Stiff Little Fingers

So you're living on a false 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

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

JOHNNY WAS Stiff Little Fingers

cry Accompanying her was a passerby Who saw the woman cry Wondering can she work it out Now she knows that the wages of sin is death The gift of God is life Oh, oh, oh, oh Johnny was a good man

A Little More Coal On the Fire Restless Heart

on the fire Send the voice she knows and loves whistlin' down the wire If it's love and it's true Oh there ain't no doubt what you gotta do Pour a little more coal on the fire You better pour a little

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

Coal Michael Penn

Who'd have ever thought to Call that coal If my hands were warm then I might I don't know I keep panning And in my reach it Hangs on Water falls down There's no gold in this barren town "Used to be a man

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

Walkin Dynamite Stiff Little Fingers

now he was the champ Said he'd like to give a little break But no-one listens toa despised black except a well-worn hack But Sonny tell me when you were young you had to fight Became the champion

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 man

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

TANTALISE Stiff Little Fingers

I won't listen to the people Who tell me it's wrong to feel this way They don't feel the way I feel Electric shock shoots through me every day Now it seems my brain's on fire This reaction you inspire

AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers

I'm running at the edge of their world They're criticising something they just can't understand Living on the edge of their town And I won't be shot down Taught me to defend myself and to be a man

NO MORE OF THAT Stiff Little Fingers

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 mat Oh we want no more of that The man

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

I WANT YOU Stiff Little Fingers

Could stop you if 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

ROARING BOYS (PART TWO) Stiff Little Fingers

two will be the same I know every nightclub doorman And they'll all know my name They all know my name Hey Charlie can you lend us a tenner Just until Saturday night You know I'll pay you back man

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....

Shrunken Man (Album Version) The The

(he can't say it) He's just an imperfect man Trapped in an imperfect body Ain't happy or sad, lonely or sorry Mr. Slo-Blo Mr. Yo-Yo Mr.

BACK TO FRONT Stiff Little Fingers

uptight, downright, inside out Back to front Fight on the beaches and back home streets Welcoming in with outclenched hands Standing on others with your own feet You've got to prove that you're a man

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

ask yourself (Chorus:) Is that what you fought the war for Is that 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

SAFE AS HOUSES Stiff Little Fingers

She's just playing, playing safe Playing houses, safe as houses Here on this street when they were kids He built his dreams with coloured bricks But comes the time for him to prove that he's a man

KICKING UP A RACKET Stiff Little Fingers

anyhow Bashy tunes speak volumes Gimme a row, gimme a row, gimme a row Louder louder louder louder Kicking up a racket Kicking up a racket Here I stand and in my hand This guitar is really the man

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

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

Is That What You Fought The War For Stiff Little Fingers

Is that what you fought the war for When still the muscles make the man. And men make women pay When Britain's flag is a badge of hate.

STANDS TO REASON Stiff Little Fingers

We had it hard when I was young, we used to have such great times A man took pride in what he'd done, you should have seen the breadlines To get back to that golden age there must be unemployment But

THE MESSAGE Stiff Little Fingers

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 baseball bat I tries to get away but I couldn't get far Cos a man

Mr. Magoo Bob Rivers

through the rain Flagged the geezer in the car down, He was going the wrong way We sped away and left rubber on all four lanes He pulled a quick u-turn, And hit a pickup from Montana While plowin' down a fire

BE SEEING YOU Stiff Little Fingers

Scams and lies and alibis Are all your stock in trade Spin me 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 cha...

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 c...

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 (Cho...

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 to...

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...

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 fuc...

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...

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 t...

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

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 a...

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 ...

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

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, you roots Love and respect you itren and protect your little

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 ...

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 j...

MY EVER CHANGING MORAL STANCE Stiff Little Fingers

Well, 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 ...

BULLETPROOF Stiff Little Fingers

want you to let me be Let me be (Chorus) B.u double l e.t.p.r. double o f I'm not B.u double l e.t.p.r. double o f So for all you instructors, you advisors And tormentors I'd like to give a little

LAST TRAIN FROM THE WASTELAND Stiff Little Fingers

Arise! 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 da...