These Colours Don't Run Lyrics - Singles - Conflict

The factories still churning out 

Of that there's not a single doubt 

There's more snide shit from their flea pits 

They couldn't give a fucking shit. 

It's true, overdue, and plain to see, 

They say, we're standing firmly in the rain 

Simply waiting for it to stop they said, 

That we should build new umbrellas because we're 

Stuck in our own rut. 

I say, blow away the rain clouds, 

For the new horizon is crystal clear. 

It's took sometime, but we're on the right track 

Now where do we go from here? 

Sick and tored of worthless statements 

Pissed off with the same old songs 

You stuff your moral rule book 

Of what's allowed, what's right and wrong 

Oh yeah, there's those who only criticise yet offer 

Nothing new solutions? Ideas? No, just raked up shit 

What a clever thing to do 

We must strive on for what we know is right 

We know all too well there's no end in sight 

But human nature is still on our side as the politicians 

Fall into landslide we're out on the street, 

Feeling the beat of the heart's in anger at the upper crust 

Elite who don't hear us scream or beg for a halt or 

Their society aborts 

1981 President Reagan and the pope face assassins' 

Bullets and escape with their lives. 

But in Cairo Sadat dies in a hail of automatic fire 

From brixton to Belfast riots rage and fires burn. 

The royal wedding of Pronce Charles is celebrated. 

In America the skies roar as Columbia the first space 

Shuttle blasts off but as winter descends so does the 

Chilling news of martial law in Poland. 

1982 Argentina invades Falklands, Speilberg captures 

Our imaginations, unemployment rises above three million, 

Adn with threat of cruise missiles twenty 

Thousand women go to war to safe guard peace. 

Britain gets it's fourth T.V. station, 

Princess Diana gives us a royal heir. 

The I.R.A. bring horror to Hyde Park, Breshnev dies in 

Russia and Irael invades Lebanon. 

1983 As protesters get into their stride at Greenham 

Ronald Reagan promises to make Star Wars a frightening reality 

Back on earth the Soviets admit to shooting down a Korean airliner, 

Maggie Thatcher triumphs again and America's first 

Woman astronaut is in space; 

For Grenada its an American invasion. 

1984 after twelve weeks the striking miners still 

Battle on and in Brighton the P.M. and cabinet narrowly 

Escape death as an I.R.A. bomb rips through the Grand Hotel. 

Yvonne Thatcher is gunned down and her murderer 

Flies away a free man. 

Rajiv Gandhi fights dave his country after the 

Assassination of his mother. 

Millions face starvation in Ethiopia. 

1985 Mikhail Gorbachev is Soviet leader, while shouts 

Of "scab" greet miners. 

Unions vote to end the national strike. 

The rainbow warrior of Greenpeace is damaged in 

New Zealand by two bombs. 

Live aid rocks the world for the hungry, 

A policeman is hacked to death in London, 

Reagan in Geneva said the world is now a safe place. 

1986 Space shuttle explodes on take off, Swedish P.M. is 

Shot dead in the street, the pickets cash in wapping, 

Reagan bombs Libya (keep your head down), Russian 

nuclear reactor is ablaze. 

1987 Beirut gun man attack U.N., Argentinian president 

Ends arms revolt, Gorbachev makes new offer on arms 

Cuts, Iraqi exocet blasts U.S. frigate, 

Thatcher is elected for a third term. 

In Britain 'spycatcher' is banned, 

But anyone can buy it in America. 

A storm hits the stock market on black monday. 

1988 S.A.S. gun man gun down I.R.A. unit in Gibraltar, 

Mitterand returns as French president. U.S. war ships 

Shoot down an Iranian airliner, 

Bush is elected as U.S. president. 

Thatcher speaks for Polish freedom. 

Britain is shocked by two disasters in nine days and 

Edwina resigns over a storm in an egg cup. 

1989 Berlin wall is torn down, 

Freedom sweeps the East. In China a light of hope in 

Tiannamen square is extinguished. 

In Romania peoplel fight against the dictator Ceauces-Cu 

and with his death they win. 

For once it seems a hope and good can prevail. 

1990 Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, U.N. troops leave 

To face the unknown horrors of modern warfare. 

Mandela is freed, the Soviet pulls out of Czechoslavakia 

And Maggie Thatcher resigns. 

1991 The waiting is over, the Gulf explodes, never 

has such a powerful force been unleashed against one 

Nation. The bombardment against Iraq is relentless, 

The end comes quickly, as the victorious survivors 

Celebrate, for some the battle against grief is just 

Beginning, yellow ribbons are everywhere, with the 

Release of John McCarthy, 

It seems at last the world is changing for the better. 

The plights of those in misery 

A dead necked vision, product of subsidence. 

Fucked up, and held in screaming silence 

Another police force investigation 

Blatant lies, false fucked suggestions 

Is it all down to communications? 

Or does the grass need cutting? 

Has it changed direction? 

The chants that only serve to divide 

The police link with the revenue, the royalties slide 

Now as poor old joy gardener bites the dust 

Why should I give a flying fuck? 

But the lefties scream outside the courts 

Looking to lay the blame, it's no one's fault 

They show sincerity, oh how much they care 

Yeah, in their sick, twisted cause, in their affairs 

A black boy has just missed his bus 

A racist attack? Or blood thirsty lust? 

Again the left jump on the back of this weeks attack 

And force feed, socialist shit militant crap. 

They blatantly try and whip up violence. 

Why don't they keep their arseholes shut? 

And keep in silent. 

Another black person has died, that is true 

But are you surprised? I ain't, because I already knew 

By promoting political deaths they could not give a fucking toss 

Sexism reigns in mans green wordl 

The A.L.F. proves yet again that they won't be told 

That what they do (or don't) is totally wrong 

So fuck off you insane cunts, it still remains... 

Our song! 

Detention centres for the relentless 

Approves schools for the fools 

Abolish the jury, punish the fury 

But it's our power that you fuel 

So is it basically blatantly obvious 

And in fact fucking common sense 

That when people are forced to live in shit 

Under your conditions, crime will undoubtedly spread 

You may be watching every move we make 

You even convince yourself that you're clever 

But I'm looking back right into your eyes, so 

Don't you ever, never ever, think that I might trip or 

Slip right down your stairs 

Into your cells, where unaware, you can beat 

And fuck me senseless, while the world spins 

Around relentless 

You may have people on your side that I 

Consider the lowest form of life 

But don't you think of what you call respect 

Even enters into our minds aspect 

For I'm sick of respect, how bout our causes instead? 

What made the maddeened go to extreme lengths 

Who simply couldn't take it 

Who knew they wouldn't make it 

Being ground down fine, by those who haven't got the time 

For they shall punish those who sin 

Toss the peasants live into the bin 

Of those who won't beg for their pittance 

And that still remains our fucking difference 

Who will not beg to their Jesus, god 

Christ I've had enough of that 

Christ I've had enough of this!