Holloways

Holloways - Nothing For The Kids lyrics

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I'm gonna pack up my troubles in my old kit-bag, I'm gonna run a mile from here<br />

'Cos the ASBO generation make this a terror nation full of loathing and fear<br />

All the bleary-eyed boys getting high on the low street<br />

While the girls lift clothes down the high street and they say, <br />

"Yeah I know, I know it's wrong but I can't be bothered to pay, <br />

I got the money but I need it for my dealer today."<br />

And her friends are all the same and they know it's not right<br />

But they were promised more from this life<br />

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And they will steal and they will fight<br />

Because there's nothing for the kids to do today<br />

And they will haunt the streets at night<br />

Because there's nothing for the kids to do today<br />

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Shaun has an ASBO, he's only fourteen, he's tired and he's bored with the local police<br />

"They're pricks," he says, "I didn't get a second chance, <br />

They didn't ask why I did it"<br />

The pigs... <br />

The paedophiles playing his neck of the woods, <br />

He's got no safety numbers, his ASBO won't allow him to be hanging around in gangs<br />

What is he to do? He's been kicked out of school<br />

What a way to fix a fool, we are failing our youth<br />

Parents and governors can you handle the truth?<br />

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And they will steal and they will fight<br />

Because there's nothing for the kids to do today<br />

And they will haunt the streets at night<br />

Because there's nothing for the kids to do today<br />

There's nothing for the kids to do<br />

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Who's to blame? The mainstream media?<br />

Our rulers and idols get greedier and seedier<br />

They're an embarrassment, they should be shamed<br />

For misguiding our youth, they're the ones to blame<br />

They sit back and watch the evil grow from the youth club ruins where the kids used to go<br />

Take parts of Salford in Manchester, dying on it's feet<br />

While the players at United get a hundred grand a week<br />

The kids love them anyway, it don't make sense<br />

When you have a go at me for the sake of fifty pence<br />

Especially when some of you so called "poor kids" have got the money for a digital camcorder<br />

And the time to film a girl whilst you spit-roast her<br />

You hang about the park but you don't play football<br />

You trouble me for money 'cos you've got to make a drug call (?)<br />

You've got time, you've got money but you wrap it in a joint 'cos you don't see the point in using your time for making your dreams come true<br />

You're all too busy trying to lose our respect for you<br />

Why're you proud to be rude?<br />

You're just trying to be cool in front of your mates<br />

That's all that really matters when you're living in hate<br />

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And they will steal and they will fight<br />

Because there's nothing for the kids to do today<br />

And they will haunt the streets at night<br />

Because there's nothing for the kids to do today<br />

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Why do you wanna grow up, why do you wanna grow so fast and throw your youth away?<br />

Don't throw your youth away and don't let me hear you say<br />

That there's nothing for the kids to do today<br />

There's plenty for the kids to do today<br />

There's so much for the kids to do</

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