Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers

Live at the Brockwell Park, Brixton,1979.
Inflammable Material (1979), Rough Trade.

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?

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

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

We're a suspect device if we do what we're 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

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• inflammable
• material
• jake
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• cluney
• ali
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• brian
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• 1979
• punk
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[demoflare]

lol ye, sounds a bit dodgy in the intro, but probably because of 1979 vhs/tapes or whatever was used to record this lol

5/5

[hairywig]

mega footage,well done whoever that was...xx

[TribalChurch]

@sherbert500 - "ruled" being the operative tense.... i.e. past.....

'Stole, pillaged, then pissed away' would actually be more apt.

[troystavers1]

I loved the energy SLF had in those days!!

Great punk band! The best!

[MrFERENGI]

we were there. this is before the skinheads invaded the stage, grabbing the mike and shouting stuff. SLF continued to play on after a little while, with all the skins sitting on the front of the stage. i still have the blurry photos to prove it

[egiammarino]

Brillant post!! wordless

[CrazyDan1984]

@1305alz jeeze, chill the fuck out man, its just how history went

[1305alz]

@CrazyDan1984 What like we're saving your sorry asses in Afghanistan right now you ungrateful yankee CUNT. And you didn't save our asses, we were doing just fine without your posing shitty arsed yankee pussy boy soldiers sticking their big yankee noses in you poor excuse for a nation.

[sherbert500]

@CrazyDan1984 lol is that why you bottled it for 5 years

[CrazyDan1984]

@sherbert500 until hitler kicked ur ass and we had to save u

[HighVoltageTurtle]

@MrChattyO

You're so cool, wish I was you.

[sherbert500]

@MrChattyO thats why we ruled the world .............