Lyrics Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers

Wasted Life

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

Killing isn't my idea of fun

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They wanna waste my life

They wanna waste my time

They wanna waste my life

And they've stolen it away

I could be a hero

Live and die for their 'important' cause

A united nation

Or an independent state with laws

And rules and regulations

That merely cause disturbances and wars

That is what I've got now

All thanks to the freedom-seeking hordes

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I'm not gonna be taken in

They said if I don't join I just can't win

I've heard that story many times before

And every time I threw it out the door

Still they come up to me

With a different name but same old face

I can see the connection

With another time and a different place

They ain't blonde-haired or blue-eyed

But they think that they're the master race

They're nothing but blind fascists

Brought up to hate and given lives to waste

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