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Safe As Houses

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Stiff Little Fingers

Safe As Houses

Release date: 1999

From Hope Street

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About This Track

"Safe As Houses" is a track by Stiff Little Fingers, from the album Hope Street, released 1999. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers

Lyrics

Safe As Houses

She makes a home and she stays mum

About the things she might have done

She keeps her eyes firm on the ground, to set her own life

Makes up her face and not her mind, to be a wife

There was a time away back then

She might have thought to think again

But then through dolls and schoolyard games, like ma before her

She learned girls play the family way' don't look for more

She's just playing, playing safe

Playing houses, safe as houses

Here on this street when they were kids

He built his dreams with coloured bricks

But comes the time for him to prove that he's a man now

He gets a wife and makes his move to three doors down

He's playing, playing safe

Playing houses, safe as houses

For there was no-one there to say

It didn't have to be that way

You never get the best of you

When you do what they expect you to

You've heard it all, how you're no use

You're born to fail, so follow suit

But if you feel and got a dream, don't dare ignore it

Cos that is what you've got to be, you must go for it

Don't play it, play it safe

A plague on houses, safe as houses

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Track details

From Hope Street

1999

Album

Stiff Little Fingers

Release year

1999

—Be Seeing You
—All the Rest
—Bulletproof
—Falling Down
—All I Need
—Fly The Flag
—Is That What You Fought The War For?
—Hope Street
—Half a Life Away
—Love Of The Common People
—Last Train From the Wasteland
—Last Train
—Roots, Radicals, Rockers And Reggae
—No Faith
—Safe As Houses
—Tantalise
—What Does It Take
—Tin Soldiers
—You Can Get It
—Honeyed Words

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