To Have And To Have Not — текст песни (Billy Bragg)

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