Armagh Lyrics - Singles - Au Pairs

We don't torture, we're a civilized nation 

We're avoiding any confontation 

We don't torture, we don't torture 

American hostages 

in Iran 

Heard daily on the news 

forget about Vietnam 

You can ignore the 32 

There are 32 women in Armagh jail 

political prisoners here at home 

the British state's got nothing to lose 

It's a subject better left alone - 

We don't torture 

we're a civilized nation 

We're avoiding 

any confontation 

We don't torture 

Alleged crimes withheld information 

She gets no sanitation 

dries her shit on her cell wall 

feeling cold and sick 

She gets a couple of valium 

Now she's relaxed for the next interrogation 

naked spreadeagled on her back 

it's a better position for internal examination 

it's a better position for giving information 

An armed guard squad she gets a beating 

bleeding and wounded she's stopped eating 

has a baby gets nothing for pain they came and took 

her baby away