| I’m gonna pack up my troubles in my old kit-bag, I’m gonna run a mile from here
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| 'Cos the ASBO generation make this a terror nation full of loathing and fear
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| All the bleary-eyed boys getting high on the low street
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| While the girls lift clothes down the high street and they say
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| «Yeah I know, I know it’s wrong but I can’t be bothered to pay
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| I got the money but I need it for my dealer today.»
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| And her friends are all the same and they know it’s not right
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| But they were promised more from this life
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| And they will steal and they will fight
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| Because there’s nothing for the kids to do today
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| And they will haunt the streets at night
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| Because there’s nothing for the kids to do today
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| Shaun has an ASBO, he’s only fourteen, he’s tired and he’s bored with the local
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| police
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| «They're pricks,» he says, «I didn’t get a second chance
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| They didn’t ask why I did it»
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| The pigs …
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| The paedophiles playing his neck of the woods
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| He’s got no safety numbers, his ASBO won’t allow him to be hanging around in
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| gangs
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| What is he to do? |
| He’s been kicked out of school
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| What a way to fix a fool, we are failing our youth
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| Parents and governors can you handle the truth?
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| And they will steal and they will fight
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| Because there’s nothing for the kids to do today
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| And they will haunt the streets at night
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| Because there’s nothing for the kids to do today
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| There’s nothing for the kids to do
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| Who’s to blame? |
| The mainstream media?
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| Our rulers and idols get greedier and seedier
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| They’re an embarrassment, they should be shamed
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| For misguiding our youth, they’re the ones to blame
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| They sit back and watch the evil grow from the youth club ruins where the kids
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| used to go
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| Take parts of Salford in Manchester, dying on its feet
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| While the players at United get a hundred grand a week
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| The kids love them anyway, it don’t make sense
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| When you have a go at me for the sake of fifty pence
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| Especially when some of you so called «poor kids» have got the money for a
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| digital camcorder
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| And the time to film a girl whilst you spit-roast her
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| You hang about the park but you don’t play football
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| You trouble me for money 'cos you’ve got to make a drug call (?)
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| You’ve got time, you’ve got money but you wrap it in a joint 'cos you don’t see
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| the point in using your time for making your dreams come true
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| You’re all too busy trying to lose our respect for you
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| Why’re you proud to be rude?
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| You’re just trying to be cool in front of your mates
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| That’s all that really matters when you’re living in hate
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| And they will steal and they will fight
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| Because there’s nothing for the kids to do today
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| And they will haunt the streets at night
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| Because there’s nothing for the kids to do today
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| Why do you wanna grow up, why do you wanna grow so fast and throw your youth
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| away?
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| Don’t throw your youth away and don’t let me hear you say
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| That there’s nothing for the kids to do today
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| There’s plenty for the kids to do today
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| There’s so much for the kids to do |
Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Nothing For The Kids, artist - The Holloways. Album song So This Is Great Britain?, in the genre Альтернатива