Suspect Device

[Javaman]

"Suspect Device" - Stiff Little Fingers

Inflammable material is planted in my head
It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead
Their solutions are our problems
They put up the wall
On each side time and prime us
And make sure we get fuck all
They play their games of power
They mark and cut the pack
They deal us to the bottom
But what do they put back?


Don't believe them
Don't believe them
Don't be bitten twice
You gotta suss, suss, suss, suss, suss out
Suss suspect device

They take away our freedom
In the name of liberty
Why don't they all just clear off
Why won'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 fell



Don'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 right



We're a suspect device if we do what we're 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

[bengalherder]

1. Love that song!

And I have found myself reflecting on it lately-along with stuff by Patrik Fitzgerald and a host of old timey punk bands....:D

[Javaman]

2. Me too.

as a friend of mine once said as we reminisced about the "good old punk days", "I really miss the fuck you attitude".

It appears as if the OWS protesters are bringing some of that back.

I find so many of those socially conscious songs of that era, also, occupying much of my ear worm time.

Cheers! :)