Wasted Life Lyrics - Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers

I could be a soldier 

Go out there and fight to save this land 

Be a people's soldier 

Paramilitary gun in hand 

I won't be a soldier 

I won't take no orders from no-one 

Stuff their fucking armies 

Killing isn't my idea of fun 

And they want to waste my life 

They want to waste my time 

They want to waste my life 

And they've stolen it away 

I could be a hero 

Live and die for their important cause 

A united nation 

Or an independent state with laws 

And rules and regulations 

That merely cause disturbances and wars 

And that's what I have got now 

All thanks to the freedom-seeking hordes 

And they want to waste my life 

They want to waste my time 

They want to waste my life 

And they've stolen it away 

I'm not gonna be taken in 

They said if I don't join, I just can't win 

I've heard that story many times before 

And every time I threw it out the door 

Still they come up to me 

With a different name but the same old face 

I can see the connection 

With another time and a different place 

Now, they ain't blonde-haired or blue-eyed 

But they think that they're a master race 

They're nothing but blind fascists 

Brought up to hate and given lives to waste 

And they want to waste my life 

They want to waste my time 

They want to waste my life 

And they've stolen it away 

What they wanna do, they want to waste my life 

They want to waste my time 

They want to waste my life 

And they've stolen it away