Lyr Req: Wasted Life (Jake Burns)

22 Jun 01 - 04:41 AM (#489540)
Subject: 'Wasted Life'
From: English Jon

As sung by Jake Burns? Anyone? Please?

"I could be a soldier...."

EJ

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22 Jun 01 - 05:57 AM (#489565)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Wasted Life'
From: Jim Cheydi

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...

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22 Jun 01 - 06:33 AM (#489577)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Wasted Life'
From: English Jon

Thank you!

I have very strange plans for this one.

EJ

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22 Jun 01 - 07:05 AM (#489591)
Subject: Lyr Add: WASTED LIFE (Stiff Little Fingers)
From: IanC

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

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22 Jun 01 - 07:35 AM (#489603)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Wasted Life'
From: English Jon

Oh yes!

Great link Ian. 'hanx.

EJ

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22 Jun 01 - 02:43 PM (#489874)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Wasted Life'
From: Shields Folk

not as good as 'Johnny Was' though but!

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