Stiff Little Fingers - Wasted Life lyrics

rate me

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 no soldier

I won't take no orders from no-one

Stuff their fucking armies

Killing isn't my idea of fun

(Chorus)

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 independant 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

(Chorus)

I'm not gonna be taken in

They said if I don't join them 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 different place

They ain't blonde haired or blue eyed

But they think that they're the master race

They're nothing but blind facists

Brought up to hate and given lives to waste

(Chorus:repeat)