We've just done what we've been told to do, be a good boy go to school
Go to sixth form college, have you got the knowledge?  
NO! You must spend fifteen thousand pounds and more
It doesn’t matter that you’re very poor
Only then will you be allowed to train
And perhaps obtain a slightly bigger brain.

Don't stress, its only money you don't have
Don't worry it WILL end in a job
Are you sure? Of course we are told
Don't be silly go to uni and let your life unfold!

Ten years later with no job and massive debt
Call centre jobs only last for six months so here we sit
Why are we here? What’s our purpose?
We are young men with nothing to drive us.

Let us make things again, put us in the Army
Let us be head of the family.
We don't know our place any more
We're lost without meaning
Lots of men standing around idle
Doing nothing just leaning.