HERE WE ARE NOWHERE Stiff Little Fingers

Friday night's here, what's the scene? Nothing to do, y'know what I mean?

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

BIG CITY NIGHT Stiff Little Fingers

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 move in every door Are

THE ONLY ONE Stiff Little Fingers

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 room below (Chorus:) There are

WALK AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

come out Your face gets hotter as the anger rise You can see excitement in their eyes As they free their aggression in the usual way It's easier to fight, harder just to walk away The streets are

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

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 you (Chorus:) They wanna have me here

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

Stiff Population 1

hand I felt you Jump across the great divide My world's in global mourning Yours eternally divine In this room it's mostly cloudy Showers not to be dismissed Raining down in human error Have we

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

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 THE REST Stiff Little Fingers

('cause what I can't see) Why he's invisible to them Yet so obvious to me He make his home in cardboard boxes And the pigeons are his friends And you cross over to avoid him Never try to make amends

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

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

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

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

THE ROAD TO KINGDOM COME Stiff Little Fingers

wouldn't believe me) Never gave a thought to all the people that you're running from Running down the road to kingdom come (who'd 've believed it) And all the time you only want a home Your countrymen are

FALLING DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

down Because she can't stand no more Someone's falling down She says her mother kicked her out She's got no name and no home to telephone She's hitching rides and sleeping out But she's OK with nowhere

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?

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

A RIVER FLOWING Stiff Little Fingers

On the TV screen Doesn't see things that I can see He's calling : Trust me need me Put your faith in my lies Believe me Trust me need me We're moving on Cos we're past believing Chorus: We

ROOTS, RADICALS, ROCKERS AND REGGAE Stiff Little Fingers

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 south Peace in the ghettoes all round about We

Roots Radicals Rockers And Reggae Stiff Little Fingers

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 south Peace in the ghettoes all round about We

SILVER LINING Stiff Little Fingers

Just be good and know your station Always look on the bright side Keep you faith and keep your patience Your reward is after you've died (Chorus:) So don't be told, don't be consoled Things are

EACH DOLLAR A BULLET Stiff Little Fingers

victim someone's son And Englishmen kill Irishmen As surely as if they fired the gun From the minute that you're born you're told to hate the other side "They're not like us, they're not the same We

WELCOME TO THE WHOLE WEEK Stiff Little Fingers

me I don't need that or your sympathy So I have no job, welcome to the whole week If you don't mind, I've decided to live my life Well, it's always something to do My girl comes round and all we

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

BACK TO FRONT Stiff Little Fingers

Flock off to find 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

Go For It Stiff Little Fingers

trample crime to the ground Equal rights and justice for one and all 'Cos only through liberty freedom shall form Don't fight against no color, class Nor creed for on discrimination Does violence breed We

NO CHANGE Stiff Little Fingers

Why can't I get it through That there's no change One day things were oh so right But all that changed overnight And now it seems that all we do is fight Why should things be different now?

DEAD OF NIGHT Stiff Little Fingers

(I would be there for you) I'd be on your side (My help would see you through) Trust in me don't cry (There now you'll be all right) In the dead of night It happened all so quickly One day we

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

Good For Nothing Stiff Little Fingers

make waves and you'll get used to knowing you're no use you're good for nothing you only waste your time be a good neighbour and get back there in line throw no stones and break no bones and watch while we

FORENSIC EVIDENCE Stiff Little Fingers

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 eyes You got lie detectors That you never use But I'm the only person here

JOHNNY WAS Stiff Little Fingers

Johnny was a good man (Repeat) In a top floor flat in the middle of the night There's a man with rifle and Johnny in his sight, I said oh no, we can't let that kind of thing happen here no more

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

JUST FADE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

She asked for it I told her flat That I don't want no more of that I've really had you up to here And I don't even like you near.

TOUCH AND GO Stiff Little Fingers

Looking back it's funny that we never lied That night we met when we were both 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

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

COLD Stiff Little Fingers

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, it feels so cold, it's so cold, it's cold Sometimes we

MY EVER CHANGING MORAL STANCE Stiff Little Fingers

you leave no room for guessing I guess I ain't learnt my lesson Cos it's getting to the point Where there's no turning back I don't need this anymore And I should just walk out the door If I stay here

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

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

NO MORE OF THAT Stiff Little Fingers

They never ask us if we want a war Who do they think they're talkin' for Cos we never get no say They have to have it all their way (Chorus:) Oh, we want no more of that You can't push us under

Guitar And Drum Stiff Little Fingers

Well you get you 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

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

SHE GREW UP Stiff Little Fingers

I said of course she grew up, cause that's how it goes Sure she grew, but she'll never grow We said yeah we grew up, cause that's how it goes Yeah we grew up, but we'll never grow old We will never

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER Stiff Little Fingers

Nothin' for us in Belfast The Pound's so old it's a pity OK, 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

MR FIRE COAL-MAN Stiff Little Fingers

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 bound to die by the gun now repeat (Chorus twice) The youths are

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