Straighten Out

Stranglers · Essential [2011]

And the first commandment reads

That human flesh and blood

Is sacred

Until there is no more food



The break of day has come

I see the cracks have just begun

To line the walls

Line the walls

I want to see the little girls and boys

Destroy their toys

And line the walls

Line the walls



What a fate for little girls

British boys' minds in a whirl

Tell you things that'll make your curls



Straighten out

Straighten out

Straighten out

Straighten out



For twenty years or more

Just tell me what we're living for

So tell me now

Tell me now

Frustrated intellect

That government capitulation

Follows now

Follows now



What a fate for little girls

British boys' minds in a whirl

Tell you things that'll make your curls



Straighten out

Straighten out

Straighten out

Straighten out



The break of day has come

I see the cracks have just begun

To line the walls

Line the walls

I want to see the little girls and boys

Destroy their toys

And line the walls

Line the walls



What a fate for little girls

British boys' minds in a whirl

Tell you things that'll make your curls



Straighten out

Straighten out

Straighten out

Straighten out



Straighten out

Straighten out

Straighten out

Straighten out ...