Stand Down - The Spitfires

You spend a lifetime ignoring the facts

Young people standing with a wall against their backs

The TV says we’re on the verge of war

Receipts for lost lives collect at their front doors

Still it could be much, much worse they say

An education debt that you won’t pay

This is the road laid out for you

I mean what else are you gonna do?

Cause this is your future you can’t see

Even though it looks like your past to me

Stand down — Get a job and fight to keep it

Stand down — Get a degree but you’ll never need it

Stand down…

You’ve shed enough tears to wash away the tracks

Thrown off enough to keep you turning back

You never said it could end up this way

Just keep you hanging on for some brighter day

Just keeping, keeping, keeping out of sight

Too young to ask and far too young to fight

This road they’ve laid out for you

I mean what else are you gonna do?

Cause this is your future you can’t see

Even though it looks like your past to me

Stand down — Get a job and fight to keep it

Stand down — Get a degree but you’ll never need it

Stand down…

Cause this your future you can’t see

Even though it looks like your past to me

Stand down…