E5 .................. C5 ................... B........... E.................... E5 A5 B5 I'm gonna pack up my troubles in my old kit-bag, I'm gonna run a mile from here E5 A5 B5 'Cos the ASBO generation make this a terror nation full of loathing and fear A5 All the bleary-eyed boys getting high on the low street E5 While the girls lift clothes down the high street and they say, A5 B5 C5 "Yeah I know, I know it's wrong but I can't be bothered to pay, B5 A5 I got the money but I need it for my dealer today." B5 And her friends are all the same and they know it's not right C5 B5 But they were promised more from this life E5 A5 And they will steal and they will fight B5 Because there's nothing for the kids to do today E5 A5 And they will haunt the streets at night B5 Because there's nothing for the kids to do today E5 A5 B5 Shaun has an ASBO, he's only fourteen, he's tired and he's bored with the local police E5 A5 "They're pricks," he says, "I didn't get a second chance, B5 They didn't ask why I did it" A5 The pigs p 'n' c'in for puttin up his hood E5 and paedophiles playing his neck of the woods, A5 B5 C5 He's got no safety in numbers, his ASBO won't allow him to be hanging around in gangs B5 A5 What is he to do? He's been kicked out of school B5 What a way to fix a fool, we are failing our youth C5 B5 Parents and governors can you handle the truth? E5 A5 And they will steal and they will fight B5 Because there's nothing for the kids to do today E5 A5 And they will haunt the streets at night B5 Because there's nothing for the kids to do today There's nothing for the kids to do E5 A5 Who's to blame? The mainstream media? B5 Our rulers and idols get greedier and seedier E5 A5 They're an embarrassment, they should be shamed B5 For misguiding our youth, they're the ones to blame A5 B5 A5 E5 They sit back and watch the evil grow from the youth club ruins where the kids used to go A5 B5 Take parts of Salford in Manchester, dying on its feet C5 B5 While the players at United get a hundred grand a week E5 The kids love them anyway, it don't make sense A5 When you have a go at me for the sake of fifty pence C5 B5 E5 A5 Especially when some of you so called "poor kids" have got the money for a digital camcorder B5 And the time to film a girl whilst you spit-roast her E5 A5 You hang about the park but you don't play football B5 You trouble me for money 'cos you've got to make a drug call (?) A5 E5 A5 B5 You've got time, you've got money but you wrap it in a joint 'cos you don't see the in using your time for making your C5 dreams come true B5 A5 You're all too busy trying to lose our respect for you Why're you proud to be rude? B5 You're just trying to be cool in front of your mates C5 B5 That's all that really matters when you're living in hate E5 A5 And they will steal and they will fight B5 Because there's nothing for the kids to do today E5 A5 And they will haunt the streets at night B5 Because there's nothing for the kids to do today A5 B5 Why do you wanna grow up, why do you wanna grow so fast and throw your youth away? A5 B5 Don't throw your youth away and don't let me hear you say E5 That there's nothing for the kids to do today There's plenty for the kids to do today C5 There's so much for the kids to do