Lyr Req: Wasted Life (Jake Burns)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Wasted Life'
From: Shields Folk
Date: 22 Jun 01 - 02:43 PM

not as good as 'Johnny Was' though but!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Wasted Life'
From: English Jon
Date: 22 Jun 01 - 07:35 AM

Oh yes!

Great link Ian. 'hanx.

EJ

Subject: Lyr Add: WASTED LIFE (Stiff Little Fingers)
From: IanC
Date: 22 Jun 01 - 07:05 AM

WASTED LIFE
(Stiff Little Fingers)

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

(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 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

(Chorus)

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

(Chorus: repeat)

from here

Cheers!
Ian

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Wasted Life'
From: English Jon
Date: 22 Jun 01 - 06:33 AM

Thank you!

I have very strange plans for this one.

EJ

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Wasted Life'
From: Jim Cheydi
Date: 22 Jun 01 - 05:57 AM

Forgot the last bit!

I won't be a soldier I won't take no orders from no one Stuff their fuckin' armies Killing isn't my idea of fun

And they wanna...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Wasted Life'
From: Jim Cheydi
Date: 22 Jun 01 - 05:52 AM

I could be a soldier
Go out there and fight to save this land
Be a peoples soldier
Paramilitary gun in hand

rpt

And they wanna waste my life
And they wanna waste my time
And 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
Rules and regulations
That merely cause disturbances and wars
That's what I have got now
All thanks to the freedom seeking hordes

And they wanna...

Still they come up to me
With a different name but same old face
I can see the connection
With another time & another place
They ain't blond haired or blue eyed
They still think that they're
The master race
They're nothing but blind fascists
Brought up to hate and given
Lives to waste

And they wanna...

JC

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Subject: 'Wasted Life'
From: English Jon
Date: 22 Jun 01 - 04:41 AM

As sung by Jake Burns? Anyone? Please?

"I could be a soldier...."

EJ