The Road To Kingdom Come Lyrics - Pure Fingers Live: St. Patrix 1993 - Stiff Little Fingers

Your family can't help you 

They're standing in your way 

Tight restrictions, contradictions 

More rules every day 

Hold you down, they hold you down 

You've got to get away 

London's calling, no more stalling 

Sleeping in your own doorway 

Never stop to reason 

Never question why 

The word's out there and they don't care 

Still you're gonna try 

Hold you down, they hold you down 

They'd never let you go 

And now you've been, at last you've seen 

And now I think you know 

That you've been 

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Running down the road to kingdom come 

(Wouldn't believe me) 

Never gave a thought 

To all the people 

That you're running from 

Running down the road to kingdom come 

(Who'd've believed it) 

And all the time you only want a home 

Your countrymen are peasants 

You hate to have them near 

You just can't seem to realize 

You've got nothing to fear 

Hold them down, you'll hold them down 

You'll keep them in their place 

It's hard to find a land so blind 

It turns on its own race 

And you're still 

[Chorus] 

I wish to god 

That someone here could help you 

I wish someone could help you sort your fate 

But you must do all the things you feel you have to 

And when we realize it's too damn late 

This world is too damn idle 

It has to pay its way 

Cut down the trees and clear the seas 

Let's live for today 

Hold it down, we'll hold it down 

That preservation noise 

Cause after all it won't be long 

We'll hear nothing at all 

And we're all 

[Chorus]