VERSE
From the playground to the wasteground
Hope ends at 17
Sweeping floors and filling shelves
Forced into government schemes
Eleven years spent to dig out ditches
Forget your schoolday dreams
Guarantees and lie-filled speeches
But nothing's what it seems
Qualified and patronized
With everything to lose
Ooh, ooh, ooh
INTERLUDE
VERSE
No choice or chance for the future
The rich enjoy less tax
Dress the girls in pretty pink
The shit goes to the blacks
A generation's heart torn out
And covered up the facts
The only thing they'll understand
Is a wall against their backs
The only hope now left for those
With everything to lose
With everything to lose
With everything to lose
Ooh, ooh, ooh
SOLO
VERSE (variation)
In desperation?s empty eyes
Signed up and thrown away
There's drugs replacing dignity
The short sharp shock repaid
There'll be no money if you dare to question
Working the Tory way
The truth is up there carved in stone
Where 21 dead now lay
A family's loss for a few pounds saved
With everything to lose
With everything to lose
With everything to lose
With everything to lose
Everything to lose
Ooh, ooh
OUTRO (scat vocals ad lib)
(repeat and fade)