THE PRICE OF ADMISSION Stiff Little Fingers

So somebody's told you how to be a man Just fuck 'em and leave 'em And score as many as you can But always have someone who's close to your heart And if you want to keep her, keep her in the dark

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

STRAW DOGS Stiff Little Fingers

All things are relative with cousins everywhere Hard-nosed blue-eyed boys, intelligent and fair You gotta pitch in for your kith and kin Holding the line to save our skin Pound for pound we'll take

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

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

STATE OF EMERGENCY Stiff Little Fingers

Well don't look at me You look for solutions But there's none you can find You believe in something That's only in your mind You're looking around you But hate has made you blind And you've spent the

TIN SOLDIER Stiff Little Fingers

He joined up to get a job and show he wasn't scared Swapped boy scout hat for army cap, he thought he'd be prepared At the age of 17 he was forced to choose At the age of 21 he's in Catch 22 He

Guitar And Drum Stiff Little Fingers

it might make all the young girls hearts beat faster But it don't amuse this cynical old bas'tard I believe I believe in the power of guitar & drum I believe in the hope held in a song I believe

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

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

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

ROARING BOYS (PART ONE) Stiff Little Fingers

Paddy is waiting in Drogheda town For the train to carry him south Another drunken night on the town Messing around The Roaring Boys, the roaring boys It's all the same to the roaring boys They

BITS OF KIDS Stiff Little Fingers

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 every day, in the

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

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

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

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?

LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE Stiff Little Fingers

Living on Government hand-outs Water in the milk from a hole in the roof Where the rain comes through What can you do?

FLY THE FLAG Stiff Little Fingers

Gimme a country that's red white and blue Gimme the British way honest and true Gimme the chance to be one of the few Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme Gimme a nation where people are free Free to

HALF A LIFE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

The two cops were knocking on the door Of a young black boy It was a quarter to four They said: "Hey nigger! Hit the floor. You're about to be history."

GET A LIFE Stiff Little Fingers

ideas that don't mean a thing With your new sense of duty and your brain 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

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

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

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

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

Is That What You Fought The War For Stiff Little Fingers

And I wonder if you ever ask yourself Is that what you fought the war for. Is that what you fought the war for Is that what you fought the war for.

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

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

I Waited Stiff Little Fingers

I waited but you never came So everything stayed the same Coulda been great I waited I was still inspired but obviously out of tune I must be dumb as shit to think,we could blow Away these blues

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

EACH DOLLAR A BULLET Stiff Little Fingers

Oh it must seem so romantic When the fighting's over there And they're passing round the shamrock And you're all filled up with tears "For the love of dear old Ireland" That you've never even seen

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

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

SILVER LINING Stiff Little Fingers

They tell you not to worry, they say they're terribly sorry But that's the way it has to be, for the likes of you and me Just be good and know your station Always look on the bright side Keep you

I WANT YOU Stiff Little Fingers

I don't know how to say I think that we should call it a day It's easy to be your slave That's not the way that I want to behave Believed you when you lied Could stop you if I tried Now I reach

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

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

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

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

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

Closed Groove Stiff Little Fingers

Punctuality's a waste of time Now nostalgia is past its prime History's a thing of the past Being first just cannot last (Chorus:) Beep beep I'm an answering machine I mean to say I say what

PICCADILLY CIRCUS Stiff Little Fingers

Piccadilly Circus in the bed of night Just passing time beneath the lights Up in town and all alone Got no business so minds his own The hotel room is lonely and cold He might as well go for a

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

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

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

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

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?

JUST FADE AWAY Stiff Little Fingers

How to gently break the news? How to get the message through? Perhaps I should just fade away.

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

HITS AND MISSES Stiff Little Fingers

Look at every man you meet It can be him on every street The woman's waiting for the next attack Bold black headlines made in dark Show how the man can make his mark The woman learned it from her