THE ROAD TO KINGDOM COME Stiff Little Fingers

more stalling, sleeping in your own doorway They never stop to reason, never question why The world's out there and they don't care, still you're gonna try Hold you down, they hold you down, they'd

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

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

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

Tragic Kingdom No Doubt

Once was a magical place Over time it was lost Price increased the cost Now the fortune of the kingdom Is locked up in its dungeon vaults The castle floor ties in traps With coiled

Tragic Kingdom No Doubt

Decoyed by old cheese Now the drawbridge has been lifted As the millions They drop to their knees They pay homage to a king Whose dreams are buried In their minds His tears are frozen stiff

Tragic Kingdom No Doubt

Decoyed by old cheese Now the drawbridge has been lifted As the millions They drop to their knees They pay homage to a king Whose dreams are buried In their minds His tears are frozen stiff

BIG CITY NIGHT Stiff Little Fingers

Stop and go on an empty crossing The lights keep changing to only their hum And standing in line along the kerb The bin bags wait till the morning comes You hear yourself walk echo lonely See shadows

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

ROARING BOYS (PART ONE) Stiff Little Fingers

Paddy is waiting in Drogheda town For the train 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

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

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

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

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

IN YOUR HAND Stiff Little Fingers

or nothing That's how you've always been All or nothing With nothing in between You can't compromise You can't quit while you're ahead You won't see reason You think that's giving in We try to

STANDS TO REASON Stiff Little Fingers

media all twist the facts, I read it in the paper Stands to reason You've heard it said so it has to be the truth Fact or fiction, what's the difference, they say it's so But think again, repeat

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

And your head is full of ideas that don't mean a thing 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

HALF A LIFE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

The two cops were knocking on the door Of a young black boy It was a quarter to four They said: "Hey nigger! Hit the floor. You're about to be history."

SILVER LINING Stiff Little Fingers

They tell you not to worry, they say they're terribly sorry But that's the way it has to be, for the likes of you and me Just be good and know your station Always look on the bright side Keep you

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

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

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

You 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 Let there be peace in the east, peace in

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?

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

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

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

YOU CAN GET IT (IF YOU REALLY WANT) Stiff Little Fingers

Persecution you must fear Win or lose you're gonna get your share Got your mind set on a dream You can get it as hard as it seems yeah (Chorus) Rome was not built in a day Opposition will come

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

Roots Radicals Rockers And Reggae Stiff Little Fingers

You 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 Let there be peace in the east, peace in the west You roots

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

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

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

LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Stiff Little Fingers

Living on Government hand-outs Water in the milk from a hole in the roof Where the rain comes through What can you do?

FLY THE FLAG Stiff Little Fingers

Gimme a country that's red white and blue Gimme the British way honest and true Gimme the chance to be one of the few Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme Gimme a nation where people are free Free to

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

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

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

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

THE ONLY ONE Stiff Little Fingers

It makes you so angry, You rage and rage again But you can't spit it outside, it's bottled in your brain You feel it in the darkness, the rage inside you grow And you know you're a stranger, in the

Go For It Stiff Little Fingers

You got to pass the bowl and make the food go round 'Cos that's the only way to trample crime to the ground Equal rights and justice for one and all 'Cos only through liberty freedom shall form Don't fight

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

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

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

Always seems to be the same round here Town full 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

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

Walkin Dynamite Stiff Little Fingers

used them pretty well They'd found something to sell But Sonny tell me when you were young you had to fight Became the champion And you were walkin' dynamite prayed on their fears though quite

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

YOU NEVER HEAR THE ONE THAT HITS YOU Stiff Little Fingers

You never hear the one that hits you, no!

BEIRUT MOON Stiff Little Fingers

"We'd like to help you." the 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