KICKING UP A RACKET Stiff Little Fingers

, I'm just Kicking up a racket Kicking up a racket I don't smoke and I don't drink But like to see the max lights blink They say that they can't sleep a wink But I don't want to hear me think

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

BACK TO FRONT Stiff Little Fingers

On cheap returns to summer places Awayday herd, all out in the heat Kicking black looks in sunshine faces A race to vote with their feet Back to front Flock off to find someone to play with He's

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

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

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

BEIRUT MOON Stiff Little Fingers

the rules Keep your chin up, I know it's tough Somehow you'll get through."

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

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

baseball bat I tries to get away but I couldn't get far Cos a man with a truncheon re-possessed my car Chorus: Don't push me cos I'm close to the edge I'm trying not to lose my head It's like 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

THE NIGHT THAT THE WALL CAME DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

leave you with It's just photographs and no permanent past And an ever growing rift Back then it was easy to blame the other guy You had it all so they built the wall and we were left to cry And 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

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

TANTALISE Stiff Little Fingers

but I don't mind Can't disguise the way I feel tonight I will be there when you're calling I will catch you when you're falling You tantalise I'm hypnotised tonight You say that this feels like a

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

COLD Stiff Little Fingers

freezes your soul And it's cold, it feels so cold, it's so cold, it's cold Sometimes we smile, sometimes we sit there and laugh out loud Sometimes we smile, sometimes I'd try to seek you out in 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

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

NO LAUGHING MATTER Stiff Little Fingers

for nothing at all This is no laughing matter You seem to have no spark only boredom You seem to have no interests at all You seem to think you're better than others You seem to be just ripe for a

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

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

radicals, you dub to the reggae you roots, you radicals, you skank to the reggae, 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

Roots Radicals Rockers And Reggae Stiff Little Fingers

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, you radicals and all the rest Peace up

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

SILVER LINING Stiff Little Fingers

you that's your future, it's all down to human nature Simply settle for what you got, that's destiny and that's your lot All of us cannot come first, yes what you have is second best But it might be a

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

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