Or maybe the other way around. This anthem from ’77 punkers Stiff Little Fingers seems to reach down into my body and demand that goosebumps erupt in relentless waves along my arm – itself ending in a clinched fist, pumping like a metronome.
Perhaps it’s not your thing though. Whatever. Music is like that.
Lyrical highlights:
They take away our freedom
In the name of liberty
Why don’t they all just clear out
Why don’t they let us be
They make us feel indebted
For saving us from hell
And then they put us through it
It’s time the bastards fellDon’t believe them
Don’t believe them
Question everything you’re told
Just take a look around you
At the bitterness and spite
Why can’t we take over and try to put it rightWe’re a suspect device if we do what we are told
But a suspect device can score an own goal
I’m a suspect device the Army can’t defuse
You’re a suspect device they know they can’t refuse
We’re gonna blow up in their face
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Japheree
March 3, 2012 at 4:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
TUNE!
I love that song and it does much the same for me. I also think it has an added element of genuine anger as they weren’t just some punk band from suburbia with middle class problems but were making brilliantly angry songs right in the middle of the worst of ‘the troubles’ in Norn Iron.
emanuel kleinFa
March 3, 2012 at 9:36 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Justin:
The”Why can’t we take over”line, it seems to me, just emulates the
Christian & Muslim “DOMINIONIST” takes on what would be an ideal society.
I much prefer a “live & let live” approach though I realize that
my preference will need to be sought after, worked for & possibly even fought for.
grumpyoldfart
March 5, 2012 at 9:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They sound so angry -- and strident.
Graham
March 5, 2012 at 11:46 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
emanuel kleinFa: the next lyrics after the ones you don’t like are:
Justin: a stiff little finger was a quick test to see if rigor mortis had set in. I hope you don’t have that.