Stiff Little Fingers - Wasted Life lyrics

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

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

They wanna waste my life

They wanna waste my time

They wanna waste my life

And they've stolen it away

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 the 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

They wanna waste my life

They wanna waste my time

They wanna waste my life

And they've stolen it away