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 going forwards   Doesn't mean I'm going 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 closing and the army's full   I don't know what I'm going 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 going forwards   Doesn't mean I'm going backwards      At twenty one you're on top of the scrapheap   At sixteen you were top of the 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 going forwards   Doesn't mean I'm going backwards