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Barbed Wire Love Lyrics
I met you in No Man's Land
Across the wire we were holding hands
Hearts a-bubble in the rubble
It was love at bomb site
(Chorus:)
All you give me is barbed wire love
All caught up in barbed wire love
Tangled up in barbed wire love
Throw my leg over barbed wire love
Barbed wire love snags my jeans
Barbed wire love
When I fell it was awful nice
Caught when not suspecting vice
The night was rife with wasteland life
You set my arm alight
(Chorus)
Blasted by your booby traps
I felt the blow in both knee-caps
Your eyes did shine
Your lips were fine
And the device in you pants was out of sight
(Chorus)
"Caught when not suspecting vice The night was rife with wasteland life"
Sounds like "suspect device" and "wasted life", two songs on the album before this track. Even more evidence Jake is a genius.
@MattieCamp I think my favourite play on words in this song is "you set my arm alight". A pretty clear reference to the Armalite rifle used by the IRA.
@MattieCamp I think my favourite play on words in this song is "you set my arm alight". A pretty clear reference to the Armalite rifle used by the IRA.
first stiff little fingers song i heard, and it's fucking great, too.
yeah, this was the first stiff little fingers song i had heard, and it's still one of my favorites.
At first, I didn't like this song as much as the others...but I grew to love it. Descibing love as barbed wire? Genius!
best slf song ever. love the way it has war language the whole way through. if u get what i mean. sort of play on words like "arm alight". JAKE BURNS YOUR A GENIUS!
Brilliant song, but SLF didn't so the lyrics, they were done by a journalist, whose name i forget. Love the doo-wop breakdown in the middle just before the guitar solo.
according to my brother this song is actually mocking the beach boys and bands like that. If you really listen to the song it does make sense. making Jake Burns even more of a genious
I really dont think it's mocking the 50s and 60s bands, i think it more of an homage, with a slightly comical, exagerated sound, to show that without bands like the beach boys, there would be no rock n' roll, so there would be no deep purple, so there would be no STIFF LITTLE FINGERS!!, who started out as a deep purple tribute band, so we should all be thankful for the 50s, or there would be no punk rock! I mean, look at the ramones, so many of their compositions are built the same way that 50s rock songs were made, same chord structure( check out sheena is a punk rocker, or, rockaway beach, and you'll see what i mean.)
Bearhunter is right - lyrics were written by Gordon Ogilvie, who was a journalist with the Daily Express
Actually, Gordon Ogilvie, according to Jake Burns, simply provided the merest scrap of lyric which got Jake writing and building on it.