Stiff Little Fingers - The Road To Kingdom Come lyrics

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Your family can't help you, they're standing in your way

Tight restrictions, contradictions, more rules every day

Hold you down, they'll hold you down, you've got to get away

London's calling, no more stalling, sleeping in your own doorway

They never stop to reason, never question why

The world'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

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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 realize, 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

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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 realize 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

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