With Everything To Lose Lyrics - Singles - 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 nothings what it seems - 

Qualified and patronised 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. 

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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. 

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