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The Holloways
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I'm gonna pack up my troubles in my old kit-bag, I'm gonna run a mile from here
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'Cos the ASBO generation make this a terror nation full of loathing and fear
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All the bleary-eyed boys getting high on the low street
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While the girls lift clothes down the high street and they say,
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"Yeah I know, I know it's wrong but I can't be bothered to pay,
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I got the money but I need it for my dealer today."
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And her friends are all the same and they know it's not right
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But they were promised more from this life
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And they will steal and they will fight
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Because there's nothing for the kids to do today
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And they will haunt the streets at night
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Because there's nothing for the kids to do today
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Shaun has an ASBO, he's only fourteen, he's tired and he's bored with the local police
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"They're pricks," he says, "I didn't get a second chance,
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They didn't ask why I did it"
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The pigs ...
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The paedophiles playing his neck of the woods,
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He's got no safety numbers, his ASBO won't allow him to be hanging around in gangs
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What is he to do? He's been kicked out of school
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What a way to fix a fool, we are failing our youth
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Parents and governors can you handle the truth?
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And they will steal and they will fight
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Because there's nothing for the kids to do today
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And they will haunt the streets at night
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Because there's nothing for the kids to do today
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There's nothing for the kids to do
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Who's to blame? The mainstream media?
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Our rulers and idols get greedier and seedier
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They're an embarrassment, they should be shamed
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For misguiding our youth, they're the ones to blame
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They sit back and watch the evil grow from the youth club ruins where the kids used to go
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Take parts of Salford in Manchester, dying on its feet
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While the players at United get a hundred grand a week
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The kids love them anyway, it don't make sense
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When you have a go at me for the sake of fifty pence
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Especially when some of you so called "poor kids" have got the money for a digital camcorder
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And the time to film a girl whilst you spit-roast her
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You hang about the park but you don't play football
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You trouble me for money 'cos you've got to make a drug call (?)
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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
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You're all too busy trying to lose our respect for you
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Why're you proud to be rude?
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You're just trying to be cool in front of your mates
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That's all that really matters when you're living in hate
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And they will steal and they will fight
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Because there's nothing for the kids to do today
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And they will haunt the streets at night
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Because there's nothing for the kids to do today
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Why do you wanna grow up, why do you wanna grow so fast and throw your youth away?
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Don't throw your youth away and don't let me hear you say
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That there's nothing for the kids to do today
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There's plenty for the kids to do today
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There's so much for the kids to do
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