Living With Unemployment

I was living in a newtown

I had problems with my parents

So I moved on up to London town

Where they said that things were happening, going down

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Living in a bedsit

Bunking the tube trains

Sleeping all day long

And you know no one, cos you don't go out,

Cos you've got no work

You just watch television

Living with unemployment I, I ain't got a job And, there's no work in the city

They, they always try to blame it on the blacks

But it's really those in power that stab you in the back

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'round our way, we ain't got a lot

And after two years on the dole, I felt I'd been left to rot

But now I've joined the Army and, believe it or not

I'm going to Northern Ireland and, I'm going to get shot!

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Living with unemployment Oh you get so lonely

Living with unemployment

It gets so frustrating

Living with unemployment

And the Neurotics wanna tell you, what it's like to be

Unemployed, out of work, unemployed, out of work (repeat)

"Try to stay, out of trouble dear..."

It's lonely for you

And it's lonely for me

It's lonely for all of us - can't you see?

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Living with unemployment

Oh you get so lonely

Living with unemployment

It gets so frustrating

Living with unemployment - living without

When you're out of work

They treat you like dirt

When you're out of work

They treat you like dirt

It's all part of the plan (8)

We are the scroungers (4)

Living with unemployment