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 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 21 you're on top of the scrapheap
 At 16 you were top of your class
 All they taught you at school
 Is 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