MY EVER CHANGING MORAL STANCE Stiff Little Fingers

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 my

Closed Groove Stiff Little Fingers

of the past Being first just cannot last (Chorus:) Beep beep I'm an answering machine I mean to say I say what I mean Beep beep I've got very strong views Plug in any loop tape you choose My

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

Two Fingers Jake Bugg

I drink to remember, I smoke to forget Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret Run down some dark alleys in my own head Something is changing, changing, changing I go back to Clifton to see

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

NO CHANGE Stiff Little Fingers

It's not what you used to say Can't you see things my way? I feel so strange I'm still the friend you knew Surely you know it's true?

LISTEN Stiff Little Fingers

It seems so easy in the light of day And when we`re there it always feels OK But then again I`m so alone when I am by myself And can I ever count on someone else?

FORENSIC EVIDENCE Stiff Little Fingers

the truth You got first rate witnesses Straight from the scene So the only person guilty In this court is me You got forensic evidence That never lies You got someone who says I'm guilty by my

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

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

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

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

And I wonder if you understand at all And I wonder if you ever ask yourself When everyone has an equal chance to live the life they buy When free health care can save your life, but queue until you

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

Is That What You Fought The War For Stiff Little Fingers

And I wonder if you ever ask yourself When everyone has an equal chance to live the life they buy When free health care can save your life.

EACH DOLLAR A BULLET Stiff Little Fingers

When people are dying there Night after night Don't you ever wonder Why it stilll goes on?

THE NIGHT THAT THE WALL CAME DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

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 and no permanent past And an ever

LAST TRAIN FROM THE WASTELAND Stiff Little Fingers

waiting No matter how far down the road you go The first few steps, a new beginning So grab the future with both hands Nobody said it'd be the promised land But you can make it better than it's ever

WALK AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

fight, harder just 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

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

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

BITS OF KIDS Stiff Little Fingers

It was nothing like that in my day, not here in my town We 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

GOTTA GETTAWAY Stiff Little Fingers

:) They wanna have me here Have me and hold me near Hold me down fasten and tie But the cars are all flashing me Bright lights are passing me I feel life passing me by The fuss is buzzing in my

BARBED WIRE LOVE Stiff Little Fingers

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 love Tangled up in barbed wire love Throw my

WASTED LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

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 Killing isn't my

WHAT DOES IT TAKE Stiff Little Fingers

To set my heart soaring How does it feel? To watch my soul fly To set my face against the wind Knowing full well I can win (Repeat chorus)

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

I WANT YOU Stiff Little Fingers

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 Who people see as weak Yet you play upon my

BREAKOUT Stiff Little Fingers

worries, at least none I can see Gotta make a fast connection then I'll be free I gotta (Chorus:) Break out and leave this life behind Break out and see what I can find Might lose I'm gonna try my

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

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

THE MESSAGE Stiff Little Fingers

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 with a truncheon re-possessed my

ROARING BOYS (PART TWO) Stiff Little Fingers

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 same I know every nightclub doorman And they'll all know my

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

BACK TO FRONT Stiff Little Fingers

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 (Chorus) I glance over my

TANTALISE Stiff Little Fingers

this must be right Just your presence makes me hazy You whip me up when I'm feeling lazy You tantalise I'm hypnotised tonight And though it might seem ideal I worry that it isn't real It's on my

I Waited Stiff Little Fingers

still inspired but obviously out of tune I must be dumb as shit to think,we could blow Away these blues I waited, I waited, I waited but you...never came I waited, I kept the faith, I was patient in my

HURRICANE Stiff Little Fingers

name Hurricane You smile as you flatter and lie And twist the knife behind us So what if the problems we've got Will tie us up and bind us It's tough no-one's calling your bluff But I have made my

Won'T Be Told Stiff Little Fingers

I don't know But I won't be told the streets of heaven are paved with gold I'm gonna stop looking over my shoulder to check what's right I'm gonna stop thinking it over.

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

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

KICKING UP A RACKET Stiff Little Fingers

got ain't quiet Spend every penny in trying to buy it I like electric toys I like making noise, I love Kicking up a racket Kicking up a racket Don't care what mom don't allow Gonna play it my

STATE OF EMERGENCY Stiff Little Fingers

there Let's try to break out From all the hatred Suspicion and doubt Try to change your life That is no life at all Try to break down the imaginary wall And if you couldn't be bothered Well then, my

IN YOUR HAND Stiff Little Fingers

you had it planned Throw it all away Chorus rpt: In your hand but you won't use it Rather throw your life away (Rpt above couplet) It's all or nothing So nothing it'll be You see I've made my

(I COULD) BE HAPPY YESTERDAY Stiff Little Fingers

(Chorus) I could be happy Oh, so happy I could be happy But it seems that I'm frustrating All attempts at my elation Chorus: x 3

BE SEEING YOU Stiff Little Fingers

But you're so intent on some pointless diversion We soon reached the point where I just don't care (Chorus) Well, if it ain't one thing Then it's another First you cut me cold Then you're my

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

NO SURRENDER Stiff Little Fingers

price that's fair Our man kills collaborators in the Public Square (Chorus) I believe in hopes and dreams, I believe in life I don't believe in hate and greed, tyranny or spite Might is right my

Two Fingers (Live From The Maze, Nottingham) Jake Bugg

I drink to remember I smoke to forget Some things to be proud of some stuff to regret Run down some dark alleys in my own head Something is changing changing changing I go back to Clifton to see my

STANDS TO REASON Stiff Little Fingers

, the Irish mugs, at heart all men are rapists Girls today they ask for it, I never touched your mother And youngsters now are all on drugs, yes, thanks, I'll have another Stands to reason Mark my

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