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Get A Life Well you snap to attention And pay heed to what they say Cos you know That you please them all that way And you don't need to think now Cos your mind has gone astray And they'll do your thinking anyway And your head is full of 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 did You never want to break away? And your head is full of answers With no questioning And your life is very simple You won't let the outside in (Chorus): Won't you tell me Why won't you get a life? Are you scared of what feels right? Won't you help me Reach the meaning of you Well it's hard for me To understand how this can be You're the same age as me Yet you're older by years Repeat vs 1 So I won't try to change you You can carry on that way But I hope You come back to life one day Believe In You Don't think of tomorrow Do it today Let's live our lives in yesterday The lies you're spreading Were dangerous then I can't watch you spread them all again You tell me we're more equal Than other men I know But your advice just can't be right And can't be left to grow It's hard to reason It's hard to see Why you never learn from history You came downtrodden And you learned to walk Now you want to march before you talk You're looking for a scapegoat A victim or a fool And though you're free now that don't mean You've freedom to be cruel (Chorus) Don't give me opinions When you can't understand truth I can't listen to a word you say You haven't any proof I believe in standing up For what I think is true But you hand me all this hatred And I just can't believe in you You're being twisted You're being used And you'll never see my point of view You're kicking back now But can't you see That what you're kicking ain't your enemy You're taking easy answers Believing age-old lies Though once oppressed you're like the rest And just as much despised Tell me all your problems How you never got a break And now you're free you're telling me That what you see you'll take It's all so stupid It's all so sad That you've had to have that life you've had That system's gone now Everything has changed And there's no-one left to take the blame You've got to start re-building Re-wrinting you're own rules Get it right don't end up like Those bullet-headed fools The Road To Kingdom Come Your family can't help you They're standing in your way Tight restrictions, contradictions More rules every day Hold you down, they hold you down You've got to get away London's calling, no more stalling Sleeping in your own doorway Never stop to reason Never question why The word's out there and they don't care Still you're gonna try Hold you down, they hold you down They'd never let you go And now you've been, at last you've seen And now I think you know That you've been... (Chorus): Running down the road to kingdom come (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 peasants You hate to have them near You just can't seem to realise You've got nothing to fear Hold them down, you'll hold them down You'll keep them in their place It's hard to find a land so blind It turns on its own race And you're still... (Chorus) I wish to god That someone here could help you I wish someone could help you sort your fate But you must do all the things you feel you have to And when we realise it's too damn late This world is too damn idle It has to pay its way Cut down the trees and clear the seas Let's live for today Hold it down, we'll hold it down That preservation noise Cause after all it won't be long We'll hear nothing at all And we're all..... (Chorus repeat) Walk Away You feel the damp in the evening air You see them standing you feel them stare You hear their insults you can hear them shout You try to answer but no words 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 empty as you're going home You got your collar turned up against the cold You're tired and hungry and and you're fit to drop The rain is pouring won't it ever stop You hear the voice from the alleyway Saying: "Come here boy don' I know your name?" And there's no use in running so you've gotta stay It's easier to fight Harder just to walk away (Chorus): Walk away Walk away Walk away It's easier to fight than walk away The corner boys on the march again Got a size 10 boot where they keep their brain Drinking cheap wine acting hard and loud You cross the road get lost in the crowd You feel your heartbeat as the taunts ring out No comprehension what it's all about The don't need reason for this anyway Easier just to fight Harder to walk away So you stand and lash out Though you know that it's wrong And it's hard to believe That's how we get along Here in every city Happens every day Easier just to fight Easier just to fight Easier just to fight Easier just to fight Then walk away No sense of logic in a flying fist No point in calculating what they've missed That's what we made them it's not their fault We just ignored them when they needed taught You hear a voice from inside your head Saying: "With that life you'd be better off dead" You know that they got no hope from day to day But it's hard to try to help Much easier to walk away No Laughing Matter 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 that I do's ever right The world's put here just to pass your time You care for nothing at all This is no laughing matter This is no laughing matter You seem to have no spark only boredom You seem to have no interest at all You seem to think you're better than others You seem to be just ripe for a fall Sometimes I just want to smack your face Sometimes I don't care at all This is no laughing matter This is no laughing matter Nothing seems to get to you Nothing gets through at all This is no laughing matter This is no laughing matter I'll take away what few friends are left you I'll show them all what fools we have been We'll leave you right up there on your alter A hero on your own silver screen The world's not there just to pass your time You'll see you're nothing at all This is no laughing matter This is no laughing matter The world's not there just to pass your time (rpt) Harp 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 don't want your half assed freedom You can have the whole deal back So now I'll tell you something Let's get this straight from the start Don't call me Harp Don't call me Harp You said: "Bring me your poor and destitute And I can kick them when they're down" Cause there's always enough misery And we'll be sure to share it round Now I'll turn my anger on you For the decency you lack For the morals you fail to uphold Your cocaine, crack and smack To the land that wears it's heart up front I'm screaming from the back Don't call me Harp Don't call me Harp And the ghettos almost full now It's time for trash to move uptown And the sight of all those beggars On the streets must really get you down Soon they'll turn their anger on you For the promises you broke For all the lies you told them As their dreams went up in smoke And I feel I stand among them As I shout this from the heart Don't call me Harp Don't call me Harp You built your land on principles Decent, brave and true I find it hard to understand Just what went wrong with you Don't call me Harp Don't call me Harp (Rpt, 1st Verse) Forensic Evidence You got the lawyers and establishment You got the proof You got public opinion And it's all the truth You got first rate witnesses Straight from the scene So the only person guilty In this court is me You've 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 Who knows the truth But you never hear my voice Never listen when I talk Made your mind up in advance And I'm going to take that walk Chorus: You based your case on circumstance That's all it was and ever will be And I never stood a chance The old boy network's stronger than me My friends and relations Never gave up hope That one day you'd listen And admit you're wrong But the old school system Turns another blind eye And I'm so unimportant That I might as well die And you never hear my voice Never listen when I shout You put me in here long ago And I'm never getting out (Chorus x 2) Now the truth has been unearthed And opinion moves my way You can't hold me in this prison cell Not even for another day And you have to hear my voice Have to listen when I scream And yet I wonder how you sleep But if you do I hope you dream Baby Blue (What Have They Been Telling You?) Always seems to be same round here Town full of losers all crying in their beer Nobody's willing to take any chance Drown your brain in the rave machine dance, boy dance You got one last shot here to change your world Yeah, one last push just might make it work But you sit on your arse watch your life drift by Lookin' at you, tell me, should I laugh or cry Why can't you realize it's all gone wrong Why can't you see who's laughing now (Chorus): Baby Blue Baby Blue What have they been telling you? Baby Blue Baby Blue What have they been telling you? Ever day you toe the same tired line Slave to your past you just serve your time Stand and watch as it falls apart They've taken your mind, your will and your heart You got one last shot here to change your world Yeah, just get out and make it work But you're much too scared to take the risk In case they put your name on their endangered list Why can't you see that it has all been lies? Why can't you hear them laughing now? (Chorus x 2) I'm not the sort of man To just leave well alone I feel we're all owed So much more Now they're telling us the world's gone wrong In fact it's been like that all along Not just the ozone but the black coal seam We're left with the sour milk cos there's no more cream This is our last shot to change the world Yeah, our last effort to make it work But they are much too scared to commit their wealth It's time to force some International Health When will they realise that now's too late? I guess they never will somehow It's not all over now Baby Blue It's not all over now Baby Blue I Want You I don't know how to say I think that we should call it a day It's easy to be your slave But that's not the way that I want to behave Believed you when you lied Could stop you if I tried Now I reach out for you just to stay alive Chorus: I want you Won't miss you if you go I'd kiss you adios amigo Because now I understand You make me an embarrassing man Who people see as weak Yet you play upon my greed I wish you didn't satisfy my needs Lost count of the 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 can't say this is the end Because if we're no longer together So I'm telling you "never again" Though I know that forever Chorus: I'll want you I want you The Night That The Wall Came Down Maybe you remember, before the wall came down How we hared 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 permanent past And an ever growing rift Back then it was easy to blame the other guy You had it all so they built the wall and we were left to cry And a young man With a young man's haste Will challenge every law So he'll try to break out but there's never a doubt That he is bound to fall Then there's all the lies they tell you And the lies you tell yourself So you end up crying (Chorus): The night that the wall came down The night that the wall came down The night that the bricks fell apart And the wall came tumbling down They said it would protect us, from evil from the west How you'd sacrifice everything in the pursuit of personal wealth But a mother With a mother's tear Sees her family torn apart There are some by her side others still trapped inside Only living in her heart So what use, the lies they tell you Or the lies you tell yourself So you end up shouting (Chorus) Oh, oh and don't let them tell you The future holds no hope Oh, oh, oh never let them beat you Look forward, take control Verse 1 & M8 rpts Cold 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 cold It feels so cold It's so cold It's cold Sometimes we smile Sometimes we sit there and laugh out loud Sometimes we smile Sometimes I'd try to seek you out in a croud Then other times I'd run a mile Than see your face again And it's cold It feels so cold It's so cold It's cold Sometimes we talk sometimes we reason everything out Sometimes we talk Sometimes I wonder what we argue about Then other times I see the hate The stubbornness that's your role And it's cold It feels so cols It's so cold It's cold But I won't cry No, I won't cry I won't cry I won't cry, anymore Sometimes we fight Sometimes we stand toe to toe and shout Sometimes we fight Sometimes I want to get up and get out The other times you smile at me And arguments seem so old It's not cold It's not so cold No it's not cold Not cold When The Stars Fall From The Sky Mid-October, sixty one The French Police were having fun Cutting down Algerians Breaking heads all over town Yet no-one saw and no-one knew No-one dared to speak the truth 200 dead became just two Sweep them in the river The witnesses were run to the ground Put the bastards underground Buried every black in town Who dared to show their face (Chorus): When the stars fall from the sky When the world cannot make me cry That's when the scales will fall from your eyes And let you see the truth Boipitong in ninety two Subjected to a murder crew Well trained policemen charging through A crowd that's armed with slogans Yet no-one saw and no help came And no-one wants to take the blame These people that you try to tame Will get round to you later The protesters were run to the ground Put the bastards underground Buried every black in town Who dared to raise his voice Every day around the world The voice of truth cannot be heard Men and women disappear They have to live their life in fear Yet something makes them stand and shout One day they will find you out Dig up every fact in town And shove them in your face What If I Want More 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 What if I want more What if I want more I'm fed up hearing "no can do" I'm hacked off listening to you Just because you've given in Doesn't mean they have to win Scraps of hope from rich man's table Fall down on the floor What if I want more What if I want more What if I want more What if I want more I've had enough of hopeless clowns If you don't want to swim, then drown You want to wallow there in sorrow Sit there on the floor What if I want more What if I want more What if I want more What if I want more |