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?

Walkin Dynamite Stiff Little Fingers

No one knows exactly where he came from It wassomewhere in arkansaw grew up flat broke with no education Had his run-ins with the law His fists became his passport out of hell When some guys saw he

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

HERE WE ARE NOWHERE Stiff Little Fingers

Nothing on 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

STATE OF EMERGENCY Stiff Little Fingers

hate has made you blind And you've spent the last ten 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

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

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

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 here to change

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

washed shiny clean It's time to take your part in the parade Yet you sound like your father and I don't want to be mean But did you never want to break away And your head is full of answers with no

LAST TRAIN FROM THE WASTELAND Stiff Little Fingers

And though this is only the start I know How long they have kept you 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

STANDS TO REASON Stiff Little Fingers

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 mistakes and it's never gonna change

NO SURRENDER Stiff Little Fingers

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 screen while these men load your gun Men who only think of fortune no

NO FAITH Stiff Little Fingers

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: No

IN YOUR HAND Stiff Little Fingers

while you're ahead You won't see reason You think that's giving in We try to tell you But you're not listening Now I realise The only help you'll take Chorus: It's in your hand The power to change

ALTERNATIVE ULSTER Stiff Little Fingers

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 is (Chorus:) An Alternative Ulster Grab it and change

YOU NEVER HEAR THE ONE THAT HITS YOU Stiff Little Fingers

You never hear the one that hits you, no!

NO LAUGHING MATTER Stiff Little Fingers

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 care for nothing at all This is no

Good For Nothing Stiff Little Fingers

you're good for nothing so watch your p's and q's best keep your nose clean and play it by our rules mind your way and don't make waves and you'll get used to knowing you're no use you're good for nothing

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

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

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

FALLING DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

every crowd And never seems to have enough Is tossed by waves of sound and up on music loud When all at once it gets too much Someone's falling down, someone's falling down Because she can't stand no

JOHNNY WAS Stiff Little Fingers

passing by And I saw the woman cry She cried, oh, oh, oh, oh Johnny was a good man Never did a thing wrong Take it down Johnny went out on a Saturday night Never hurt anybody never started no

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

BREAKOUT Stiff Little Fingers

Ain't got no money but I don't give a damn 'Cos when I get it I spend it fast as I can Ain't got no worries, at least none I can see Gotta make a fast connection then I'll be free I gotta (

JUST FADE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

She asks for more and I give less Why can't she see it's obvious I mean no but she takes yes I make it clear but she don't guess.

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

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

WELCOME TO THE WHOLE WEEK Stiff Little Fingers

outdoors, play football, or simply play the fool If it rains go back in, you can always watch Play School Don't try to tell me that it ain't a lot I'm gonna make the best of what I've got So I have no

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

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

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

MY EVER CHANGING MORAL STANCE Stiff Little Fingers

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 moral stance is up for grabs again Though you leave no

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

THE ONLY ONE Stiff Little Fingers

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 no

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

LAW AND ORDER Stiff Little Fingers

feel small Laugh at your appearance and the clothes you wear Call that justice just isn't fair (Chorus:) Talking bout their law and order They don't do what they ought to Law and order There's no

AT THE EDGE Stiff Little Fingers

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 don't want to hear no

SAFE AS HOUSES Stiff Little Fingers

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 He's playing, playing safe Playing houses, safe as houses For there was no-one

TIN SOLDIER Stiff Little Fingers

(Chorus:) Tin soldier, he signed away his name Tin soldier, no chance for cash or fame Tin soldier, now he know the truth Tin soldier, he signed away his youth He joined up cos Dad knew best, to

WAIT AND SEE Stiff Little Fingers

' 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 We just told them 'Wait and see' We had no

THE NIGHT THAT THE WALL CAME DOWN Stiff Little Fingers

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 and no

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

WHAT IF I WANT MORE? Stiff Little Fingers

I'm fed up hearing "No can do."

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

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

Go For It Stiff Little Fingers

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 against no

BULLETPROOF Stiff Little Fingers

Now I don't take too kindly to your helpful hints No matter how heartfelt they're meant 'Cos it usually means I've got some business of my own That you want to get your nose in Now that's a fact, you

EACH DOLLAR A BULLET Stiff Little Fingers

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 the road No

I WANT YOU Stiff Little Fingers

times I've forgotten my lines And everyone laughed at the fool So I put you on hold Although it turns me cold I'm sick of you calling the tune I want I can't say this is the end Cause if we're no

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