To Have And To Have Not

Up in the morning and out to school

Mother says there'll be no work next year

Qualifications, once the golden rule

Are now just pieces of paper

Just because you're better than me

Doesn't mean I'm lazy

Just because you're goin' forwards

Doesn't mean I'm goin' backwards

If you look the part, you'll get the job

In last year's trousers and your old school shoes

The truth is, son, it's a buyer's market

They can afford to pick and choose

Just because you're better than me

Doesn't mean I'm lazy

Just because I dress like this

Doesn't mean I'm a communist

The factories are closin' and the army's full

I don't know what I'm goin' to do

But I've come to see in the land of the free

There's only a future for the chosen few

Just because you're better than me

Doesn't mean I'm lazy

Just because you're goin' forwards

Doesn't mean I'm goin' backwards

At 21, you're on top of the scrapheap

At 16, you were top of your class

All they taught you at school was how to be a good worker

The system has failed you, don't fail yourself

Just because you're better than me

Doesn't mean I'm lazy

Just because you're goin' forwards

Doesn't mean I'm goin' backwards