Stiff Little Fingers is a Northern Irish punk rock band from Belfast, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star (named after the Deep Purple song), doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they reformed five years later, in 1987. Despite major personnel changes, they are still touring and recording as of 2009. Jake Burns, their lead singer, is the only... [read more] - Hits And Misses
Look at every man you meetIt can be him on every streetThe woman's waiting for the next attackBold black headlines made in darkShow how the man can make his markThe woman learned it from her dadHow he can be like Jack...
- Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus in the dead of nightJust passing time beneath the lightsUp in town and all aloneGot no business so minds his ownThe hotel room is lonely and coldHe might as well go for a strollIdly looking in a...
- Just Fade Away
She asks for more and I give lessWhy can't she see it's obviousI mean no but she takes yesI make it clear but she don't guessShe comes round it gets me downBut she don't catch a hint I dropShe turns up it turns me...
- Go For It
(Instrumental)
- Safe As Houses
She makes a home and she stays mumAbout the things she might have doneShe keeps her eyes firm on the groundTo set her own lifeMakes up her face and not her mindTo be a wifeThere was a time away back thenShe might have...
- The Only One
It makes you so angryYou rage and rage againBut you can't spit it outsideIt's bottled in your brainYou feel it in the darknessThe rage inside you growAnd you know you're a strangerIn the room belowThere are no words...
- Gate 49
When I'm away I think of youAnd how you're where I want to beAnd there's on thing I gotta doGet back to you to be free to be meCos anytime I don't like itI keep a doorway in my mindWhen I want to be with youI just...
- Kicking Up A Racket
I sit and I don't make a soundWhile I watch the speakers poundAnd mum shouts up to turn it downCos I'm waking up half the townBut I don't hear a word that's saidWhile the needles hit the redI'm just -Kicking up a...
- Roots, Radicals, Rockers And Reggae
You roots, you radicals, you rock to the reggaeYou roots, you radicals, you dub to the reggaeYou roots, you radicals, you skank to the reggaeLet there be peace in the east, peace in the westYou roots, you radicals and...
- At The Edge
Back when I was younger they were talking at meNever listened to a word I saidAlways yap yap yapping and complaining at meMade me think I'd be better off deadI don't want to talk about itI don't want to hear no...
- Fly The Flag
Gimme a country that's red white and blueGimme the British way honest and trueGimme the chance to be one of the fewGimme gimme gimme gimme gimmeGimme a kingdom where people are freeFree to do and free to beFree to...
- Gotta Get Away
You know there ain't no street like homeTo make you feel so all alonePlenty of folk to tell you what to doBut they don't speak the same language as you[Chorus:]They wanna have me hereHave me and hold me nearHold me...
- No Change
Why do you talk that way?It's not what you used to sayCan't you see things my way?I feel so strangeI'm still the friend you knewSurely you know it's true?Why can't I get it throughThat there's no changeOne day things...
- I Don't Like You
If I thought you could find a wayI'd tell you to go get lostBut why ask you to pay attentionWhen your brain can't stand the costLook at youAnd the state you're inNext to youEven a brick is thin[Chorus:]You oughta...
- Wait And See
When we started we thought we were greatTho' nobody else agreedJust you and I wasting our timePlaying and singing out of keyAnd they said we played too loudCos we didn't play for their crowdBut we just told them 'Wait...
- Talkback
Every time I go to speak my mind you just ignore meEvery time I try to have my say you have it for meThey say there's freedom of speechBut when I try to make free you sayDon't you talk back to meDon't you talk back to...
- Mr Fire Coal-Man
[Chorus:]Hey I hear you callingMr Fire Coal-ManCome and do your workYou never see smoke without fireWhat you reap you got to sow, nowrepeat[Chorus]The man who lives by the gun nowbound to die by the gun...
- Straw Dogs
All things are relative with cousins everywhereHard-nosed blue-eyed boys, intelligent and fairYou gotta pitch in for your kith and kinHolding the line to save our skinPound for pound we'll take the shillingIt takes a...
- Listen
It seems so easy in the light of dayAnd when we`re there it always feels OKBut then againI`m so alone when I am by myselfAnd can I ever count on someone else?And then you say[Chorus]Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh OhOh Oh Oh Oh Oh...
- Two Guitars Clash
Though up till then I'd thought that what I had was fineI realised then as the earth moved that first timethat I had had more here insidejust waiting for the vital sparkand then it crashed in on my senses with a bang...
- Bits Of Kids
It was nothing like that in my day .... Here in my townWe didn't get things all our way. Till we were full-grownNow they go into pubs. And you're gonna get muggedIn my townSo you read about it every day .... In the...
- Bloody Sunday
Take a look around you all is deadA good look around makes me see redWhat have they done to usTaken all the fun from usWe might as well stay all day in bedOf course we're rightyou know we're rightit's worse than...
- 78 RPM
69 it was fine you saybut by 79 it's gonna be mine I say71 rang the knell72 we went through hell73 & 74 only gave us morebloody bloody bloody boreBut now its hereour new yearit's gonna be 78 revolutions a minute78...
- Silver Lining
They tell you not to worryThey say they're terribly sorryBut that's the way it has to beFor the likes of meJust be good and know your stationAlways look on the bright sideKeep your faith and keep your patienceYour...
- Each Dollar A Bullet
Oh it must be so romanticWhen the fighting's over thereAnd they're passing round the shamrockAnd you're all filled up with tears"For the love of dear old Ireland"That you've never even seenYou throw in twenty...
- Back To Front
On cheap returns to summer placesAwayday herd, all out in the heatKicking black looks in sunshine facesA race to vote with their feetBack to frontFlock off to find someone to play withHe's not like us he must be...
- You Can't Say Crap On The Radio
Oh flip oh gosh oh golly geeWe really shocked the local rock disc jockOh crumbs oh boy oh sugar meThe poor bloke nearly went right off his blockWe only told him what we did and didn't likeAnd then we used that word...
- Stands To Reason
They say our country's on the rocks and Britain's the greatestThey say the blacks get all the jobs. They say that they are lazyA nice girl won't let you have ***. Enjoys it if you make herThe media all twist the...
- Love Of The Common People
Living on Government hand-outsWater in the milk from a hole in the roofWhere the rain comes throughWhat can you do? You can't moveYou got tears from your little sisterCrying cos she don't have a dress without a patch...
- Welcome To The Whole Week
And now and then when I'm in the moodI might get up at the crack of noonThen take a wander down to the arcadeMight as well clock up a high scoreAnd hang around with my mates beforeI wander back to find my dole's been...
- The Price Of Admission
So somebody's told you how to be a manJust *** 'em and leave 'emAnd score as many as you canBut always have someone who's close to your heartAnd if you want to keep her, keep her in the darkCos you love herSo you...
- Big City Night
Stop and go on an empty crossingThe lights keep changing to only their humAnd standing in line along the kerbThe binbags wait till the morning comesYou hear yourself walk echo lonelySee shadows move in every doorAre...
- Falling Down
Someone's falling down tonightWhile facing front you stand and scream for moreThe room jumps hot and chucked asideThe empty cans teeter across the floorBut at the edge the girl who shows in every crowdAnd never seems...
- Touch And Go
Looking back it's funny that we never liedThat night we met when were both aloneWe knew at once that what we'd want was just that nightKnew it couldn't be foreverCos we each told of anotherAnd then found something all...
- Won't Be Told
I don't knowBut I won't be told the streets of heaven are paved with goldI'm gonna stop looking over my shoulder to check what's rightI'm gonna stop thinking it over. And start tonightDo it fast or do it slowDo it...
- Is That What You Fought The War For?
Yes, I know you did your bit back then. But what was it you won?Take a good look round you now. Whose side were you on?And I wonder if you understand at all. And I wonder if you ever ask yourselfWhen everyone has an...
- Alternative Ulster
Nothin' for us in BelfastThe Pound's so old it's a pityOK, there's the trident in BangorThen walk back to the cityWe ain't got nothin' but they don't really careThey don't even know you knowJust want our moneyAnd we...
- Law And Order
Everybody's down in the centre of townDoing nothing wrong we're only hangin' aroundThey put you up against the wallMake loud mouthed jokes just to make you feel smallLaugh at your appearance and the clothes you...
- Wasted Life
I could be a soldierGo out there and fight to save this landBe a people's soldierParamilitary gun in handI won't be no soldierI won't take no orders from no-oneStuff their *** armiesKilling isn't my idea of...
- Rough Trade
Record boss said we would be a smashYeah, go straight to Number OneHe talked of hits and tours and lots of cash And all the time it wasn't onAnd I believed every word was trueYeah I swallowed every lineI believed...
- State Of Emergency
You're looking for somethingBut what could it be?You look for a heroWell don't look at meYou look for solutionsBut there's none you can findYou believe in somethingThat's only in your mindYou're looking around youBut...
- Barbed Wire Love
met you in No Man's LandAcross the wire we were holding handsHearts a-bubble in the rubbleIt was love at bomb siteAll you give me is barbed wire loveAll caught up in barbed wire loveTangled up in barbed wire loveThrow...
- Suspect Device
Inflammable material is planted in my headIt's a suspect device that's left 2000 deadTheir solutions are our problemsThey put up the wallOn each side time and prime usAnd make sure we get *** allThey play their games...
- White Noise
Rastus is a nigger. Thug mugger junkie.Black golly gob. Big horny monkey.Pimp pusher coon. Grinning piccaninnies.Send him home soon. Back to the trees.Black wogs. Black wogs. Face Don't fit.Black wogs. Black wogs....
- Closed Groove
Punctuality's a waste of timeNow nostalgia is past it's primeHistory's a thing of the pastBeing first will never last[Chorus]Beep beep I'm an answering machineI mean to say I say what I meanBeep beep I've got very...
- No More Of That
They never ask us if we want a warWho do they think they're talkin' forCos we never get no sayThey have to have it all their way[Chorus:]Oh, we want no more of thatYou can't poush us under the matOh we want no more of...
- Johnny Was
Woman hold her head and cryCause her son had been shot down in the street and diedFrom a stray bulletWoman hold her head and cryAccompanying her was a passerbyWho saw the woman cryWondering can she work it outNow she...
- Here We Are Nowhere
Friday night's hereWhat's the scene?Nothing to doY'know what I mean?Nothing on the tellyThere is no late-night showNo shows in townThere is no place to goHere we are nowhereNowhere left to goIs it a crimeTo be...
- Breakout
Ain't got no money but I don't give a damnCos when I got it I spend it as fast as I canAin't got no worries at least none as I can seeGot to make a fast connection then I'll be free[Chorus] Break out and leave this...
- Tin Soldier
He joined up to get a jobAnd show he wasn't scaredSwapped boy scout hat for army capAt the age of 17 he was forced to chooseNow at the age of 21 he's in Catch 22He joined up for just three yearsIt seemed a small...
- Doesn't Make It Alright
Just because you're nobodyIt doesn't mean that you're no goodJust because there's a reasonIt doesn't mean it's understood[Chorus:]It doesn't make it alrightIt doesn't make it alrightIt's the worst excuse in the...
- Nobodys Hero
I think it's time we talked this overI think you've taken this too farI never wanted to be differentDidn't ask to be nobody's starTry and take control of itCause what you see is what you getTry and take control of...
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