Up in the morning and out to school
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Mother says there'll be no work next year
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Qualifications once the Golden Rule
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Are now just pieces of paper
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Just because you're better than me
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Doesn't mean I'm lazy
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Just because you're going forwards
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Doesn't mean I'm going backwards
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If you look the part you'll get the job
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In last year's trousers and your old school shoes
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The truth is son, it's a buyer's market
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They can afford to pick and choose
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Just because you're better than me
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Doesn't mean I'm lazy
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Just because I dress like this
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Doesn't mean I'm a communist
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The factories are closing and the army's full -
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I don't know what I'm going to do
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But I've come to see in the Land of the Free
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There's only a future for the Chosen Few
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Just because you're better than me
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Doesn't mean I'm lazy
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Just because you're going forwards
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Doesn't mean I'm going backwards
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At twenty one you're on top of the scrapheap
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At sixteen you were top of the class
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All they taught you at school
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Was how to be a good worker
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The system has failed you, don't fail yourself
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Just because you're better than me
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Doesn't mean I'm lazy
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Just because you're going forwards
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Doesn't mean I'm going backwards
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To Have And To Have Not
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Billy Bragg |