With Everything To Lose Lyrics

From the playground to the waste ground Hope ends at seventeen Sweeping floors and filling shelves Forced into government schemes
Eleven years spent to dig out ditches Forget your school day dreams Guarantees and lie-filled speeches But nothings what it seems
Qualified and patronized And with everything to lose 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
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 twenty one dead now lay A family's loss for a few pounds saved With everything to lose