FALLING DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

Someone's falling down tonight While facing front you stand and scream for 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

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

THE ROAD TO KINGDOM COME Stiff Little Fingers

Your family can't help you, they're standing in your way Tight restrictions, contradictions, more rules every day Hold you down, they'll hold you down, you've got to get away London's calling, no

TANTALISE Stiff Little Fingers

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 you when you're falling

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

BACK TO FRONT Stiff Little Fingers

someone to play with He's not like us he must be done Buckets and spades to make your day with It hurts so good it must be fun (Chorus:) And it's "Made in London town Fists are up to knuckle down

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

LAST TRAIN FROM THE WASTELAND Stiff Little Fingers

And cynics will tell you there's problems ahead But you go ahead and solve them They'll fill you with doubt and suspicion and dread But your strength can overcome them You got to face the critics down

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?

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

JOHNNY WAS Stiff Little Fingers

Woman hold her head and cry Cause her son had been shot down in the street and died From a stray bullet Woman hold her head and cry Accompanying her was a passerby Who saw the woman cry Wondering

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

TINDERBOX Stiff Little Fingers

Then the rain came down And washed all hope away And your life's a train But it only goes one way What about the times when you were happy Balance them against the times you're sad Was there once

HUMAN SHIELD Stiff Little Fingers

human shield I believe in the human shield People try to use you and abuse you every day Doesn't seem to matter what you do or what you say Then you need a friend that you can count on when you're down

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

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

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 down

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

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?

HERE WE ARE NOWHERE Stiff Little Fingers

the telly, there is no late-night show No shows in town, there is no place to go Here we are nowhere, nowhere left to go Is it a crime to be young Cos every time we have some fun They put us down

GOTTA GETTAWAY Stiff Little Fingers

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 you (Chorus:) They wanna have me here Have me and hold me near Hold me down

STATE OF EMERGENCY Stiff Little Fingers

years of your life In this emergency So please don't just sit 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

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

BREAKOUT Stiff Little Fingers

try 'cos I gotta know If I am the winner or the star of the show Can't stand routine for another day Rules and regulations getting in my way I gotta (Chorus) And I won't let anyone put me down

TALKBACK Stiff Little Fingers

to me Don't you talk back to me Don't you talk back to me Now you must see reason See that I'm a person Shut you face and listen, ain't it time And if you open your mouth I'll jump straight down

STAND UP AND SHOUT Stiff Little Fingers

for the one and only Get on your feet and raise your fist up for the count What's yours is yours if you will just stand up and shout No looking back you got to play the cards you're dealt Break down

HITS AND MISSES Stiff Little Fingers

adds Gatefold Miss World Page, Three Miss X (Chorus) I'm not talking about a psycho-killer Sonny, it's not one of those It could be you, it could be me It's someone we all know See him walk down

HOPE STREET Stiff Little Fingers

that you never loose the fire Whole lives lived under the burden The strain of the buying age Believe me I know it for certain That you can break from the cage By holding your head high Get a little

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

jobless cry, when money shouts and lies and buys off just enough to vote, pass by the other side Then I wonder if you understand at all And I wonder do you never ask yourself (Chorus) At the going down

Gate 49 Stiff Little Fingers

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 to be with you I just walk through Gate 49 It gets me down

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

BITS OF KIDS Stiff Little Fingers

don't grow whole Broken cities, 'n' broken hearts, bits of people who fall apart In my town And it seems there's nothing anyway, not here in this town Everything is only yesterday, and on the way down

AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers

that count not football teams (Chorus:) And 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

SAFE AS HOUSES Stiff Little Fingers

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 now He gets a wife and makes his move to three doors down

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

YOU NEVER HEAR THE ONE THAT HITS YOU Stiff Little Fingers

never will You never hear the one that hits you no Never did, never will You never hear the one that hits you no, no, no So you send applications all over town and the only replies are to turn you down

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

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

Is That What You Fought The War For Stiff Little Fingers

Is that what you fought the war for At the going down of the sun And in the light of day All you need remember is We won't be taken like your generation again Is that what you fought the war for.

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

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

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

EACH DOLLAR A BULLET Stiff Little Fingers

someone's son And Americans kill Irishmen As surely as if they fired the gun Now you've never stood on Belfast's streets And heard the bombs explode Or hid beneath the blankets When there's riots down

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

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 north, peace down

Roots Radicals Rockers And Reggae Stiff Little Fingers

, 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 north, peace down

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...

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...

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....