Stiff Little Fingers are the best Punk Band ever. Their brand of politics and poetry lit up the scene.
They produced a number of exceptional songs with amazing lyrics.
SLF came roaring out of Ireland with the force of an incendiary bomb. They harnessed the violence of the troubles and sang about their own vision of a better future. The anger and fury suited the punk style.
Just brilliant.
SUSPECT DEVICE
(Fingers/Ogilvie)
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?
(Chorus:)
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
(Chorus)
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
(Chorus)
We’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