With Everything To Lose - The Style Council

From the playground to the wasteground

Hope ends at 17 —

Sweeping floors and filling shelves

Forced into government schemes —

11 years spent to dig out ditches

Forget your schoolday dreams —

Guarantees and lie-filled speeches

But nothing’s what it seems —

Qualified and patronised

And with everything to lose

Oooh ooh

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

Oooh ooh

In desperation 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

With everything to lose

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