Stiff Little Fingers performing "Wasted Life" in 1979 ! <br />TRUE SOUND OF THE STREETS ! <br />"Wasted Life" <br />I could be a soldier <br />Go out there and fight to save this land <br />Be a people's soldier <br />Paramilitary gun in hand <br />I won't be no soldier <br />I won't take no orders from no-one <br />Stuff their fucking armies <br />Killing isn't my idea of fun <br /><br />[Chorus] <br />They wanna waste my life <br />They wanna waste my time <br />They wanna waste my life <br />And they've stolen it away <br /><br />I could be a hero <br />Live and die for their 'important' cause <br />A united nation <br />Or an independent state with laws <br />And rules and regulations <br />That merely cause disturbances and wars <br />That is what I've got now <br />All thanks to the freedom-seeking hordes <br /><br />[Chorus] <br /><br />I'm not gonna be taken in <br />They said if I don't join I just can't win <br />I've heard that story many times before <br />And every time I threw it out the door <br /><br />Still they come up to me <br />With a different name but the same old face <br />I can see the connection <br />With another time and a different place <br />They ain't blonde-haired or blue-eyed <br />But they think that they're the master race <br />They're nothing but blind fascists <br />Brought up to hate and given lives to waste
