With Everything to Lose

PAUL JOHN WELLER, STEVEN DOUGLAS WHITE

From the playground to the wasteground
Hope ends at 17 -
Sweeping floors and filling shelves
Forced into government schemes -
11 years spent to dig out ditches,
Forget your schoolday dreams -
Guarantees and lie-filled speeches,
But nothings what it seems -
Qualified and patronised and with everything to lose.
No choice or chance for the future
The rich enjoy less tax -
Dress the girls in pretty pink
The shit goes to the blacks
A generation's heart torn out
And covered up the facts
The only thing they'll understand
Is a wall against their backs
The only hope now left for those - with everything to lose.

In desperation empty eyes,
Signed up and thrown away -
There's drugs replacing dignity,
The short sharp shock repaid -
There'll be no money if you dare to question
Working the Tory way -
The truth is up there carved in stone,
Where 21 dead now lay -
A family's loss for a few pounds saved -
With everything to lose.

Trivia about the song With Everything to Lose by The Style Council

On which albums was the song “With Everything to Lose” released by The Style Council?
The Style Council released the song on the albums “Our Favourite Shop” in 1985, “Internationalists” in 1985, “Home & Abroad” in 1986, “Home and Abroad” in 1986, “The Style Council Collection” in 1996, and “The Complete Adventures Of The Style Council” in 1998.
Who composed the song “With Everything to Lose” by The Style Council?
The song “With Everything to Lose” by The Style Council was composed by PAUL JOHN WELLER, STEVEN DOUGLAS WHITE.

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