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'cosh' [remix] Lyrics - Flags And Emblems - Stiff Little Fingers

Everything is turning upside down in this town 

The crime rate's rising up as employment swoops down 

Kids can't trust their parents to protect them no more 

And if you're Black or Irish you just can't trust the law 

 

Winos on the corner with no hope and no plan 

Kids on five quid drug deals waiting for their man 

Estates in states of chaos, hatred scrawled on the walls 

 

The men of law and order writhe about on the floor 

No one dream of living, those hopes lie on the rocks 

Your newly detached haven is a cardboard box 

 

And it seems, and it seems 

Someone's used the cosh 

And the country's on its knees 

 

Old folk freeze to death in flats 

Where damp streams down the walls 

Poll tax bailiffs scream unheard in countless council halls 

 

Plans for new development that never cure the mess 

Benefits that won't be paid unless you've an address 

And no one dream of living, those hopes lie on the rocks 

Your newly detached haven is a cardboard box 

 

And it seems, and it seems 

Someone's used the cosh 

And the country's on its knees 

 

Our Welfare State's collapsing 

And no one seems to care 

As long as money's being made 

And profits there to share 

 

Buy into a service that belonged to you and me 

Soon you'll find our country is the UK pic 

 

And no one dream of living 

Those hopes lie on the rocks 

Your newly detached haven is a cardboard box 

 

And it seems, and it seems 

Someone's used the cosh 

And the country's on its knees 

 

Down on its knees, down on its knees 

Someone's used the cosh 

And the country's down on its knees 

Down on its knees, down on its knees 

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