Careers Service Lyrics - John Wesley Harding

It's a twenty-four hour operation with a skeleton staff 

The profits almost double when they cut the work force in half 

The boss votes the way the money goes and the flags fly at half-mast 

He believes in the lie that is free enterprise and it just makes me laugh 

And it makes me nervous 

Careers service 

It makes me nervous 

You can't walk down the street, now the corner-shop's been closed 

Who needs nostalgia when it belts you in the nose? 

Big men put me out of business, made me sell budget garden hose 

Left you drunk on overpriced scotch, wearing a plastic rose 

And it makes me nervous 

Careers service 

It makes me nervous 

The boys in the queue 

The girls in the queue 

The men and the women, all shouting at you 

Whatever happened to careers information? 

Whatever happened to the pride of this nation? 

No-one's giving us good vibrations 

Excitations 

You've got your best suit on for the interview 

Meeting people you shouldn't have to meet 

Doing things you don't want to do 

Behind the desk, it's all sex on a casting couch, surely will bite you 

You don't even get the understudy amidst all this hullabaloo 

And it makes me nervous 

Careers service 

Well, it's so worthless 

Careers service 

Well, it's so worthless