ALL I NEED Stiff Little Fingers

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 and hide Chorus: Then I

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

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

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

DIE & BURN Stiff Little Fingers

You're holding on to something I don't believe is real You're living in the past and you refuse to reappraise Your ridiculous commitment to an outmoded ideal Are you honestly that stupid or will these

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

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

Yes, I know you did your bit back then, but what was it you won? Take a good look around you now, whose side were you on?

MY EVER CHANGING MORAL STANCE Stiff Little Fingers

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 my ever changing moral stance is up for grabs again My ever changing

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

Is That What You Fought The War For Stiff Little Fingers

Yes, I know you did your bit back then. But what was it you won? Take a good look round you now. Whose side were you on? And I wonder if you understand at all.

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

NO SURRENDER Stiff Little Fingers

Here's your mask `nd here's your glove, it's all an arcade game We call it 'Virtual Reality' so nothing's what it seems Although we may want you to kill just do it now for fun You play on the computer

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

TOUCH AND GO Stiff Little Fingers

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 And then found something al our own (Chorus:) We both agreed we felt the need

DUST IN MY EYE Stiff Little Fingers

I need no help, no aid I don't need your assistance I stand alone my friend And you can walk on by Don't think I'm lonely Cos I'm drinking here alone Sometimes it's easier To spend time on my

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

Well you snap to attention and pay heed to what they 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

Sad Eyed People Stiff Little Fingers

Sad-eyed people sat in bars Sad-eyed People sat in bars In the corner there's the party with the birthday Its quite happy but its quite sad because no one's there and no one cares Least of all me Sad-eyed

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

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

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

ALL THE REST Stiff Little Fingers

up for dead And they all got real embarrassed About the problems with his head Chorus: Shout it out!

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

IN YOUR HAND Stiff Little Fingers

It's all 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

ROARING BOYS (PART TWO) Stiff Little Fingers

Won't you tell me all your cares and problems Won't you tell me why you look so blue I'll take you into town, yeah, show you a thing or two I know every bar and nightclub Yeh, no two will be the

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

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

the rest I said peace up north, peace down south Peace in the ghettoes all round about We are all in a one and one in all So throw away the guns and the war's all gone Throw away the hunger and the

NO CHANGE Stiff Little Fingers

I feel so strange I'm still the friend you knew Surely you know it's true?

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

(I COULD) BE HAPPY YESTERDAY Stiff Little Fingers

Or am I lying?

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

THE ROAD TO KINGDOM COME Stiff Little Fingers

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 never let you go And now you've been, at last you've seen and now I

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

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

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

WALK AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

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 a voice from the alleyway Saying "Come here boy don't I

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

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

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

Guitar And Drum Stiff Little Fingers

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 it might make all

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

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

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

FORENSIC EVIDENCE Stiff Little Fingers

You got the lawyers and establishment You got the proof You got public opinion And it's all the truth You got first rate witnesses Straight from the scene So the only person guilty In this court

WHAT IF I WANT MORE? Stiff Little Fingers

I'm sick of being pushed around I'm tired of being forced back down So all your dreams and your ambitions lie there on the floor What if I want more? What if I want more?

SILVER LINING Stiff Little Fingers

after you've died (Chorus:) So don't be told, don't be consoled Things are so bad, you can never make do And there's always someone better off than you They tell you that's your future, it's all

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER Stiff Little Fingers

there's the Trident in Bangor Then walk back to the city We ain't got nothin' but they don't really care They don't even know you know Just want our money And we can take it or leave it What we need

GOTTA GETTAWAY Stiff Little Fingers

Gotta gotta gettaway, gotta gotta gettaway You know there ain't no street like home To make you feel so all alone Plenty of folk to tell you what to do But they don't speak the same language as

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

Won'T Be Told Stiff Little Fingers

And start tonight Do it fast or do it slow Do it once then let it go I don't know I don't know I don't know But I won't be told You're gonna stop looking over my shoulder to see what I'm at Okay, You're

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 cold