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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
