Clash - All The Young Punks lyrics

All the young punks (new boots and contracts)<br><br>(strummer/jones)<br><br>Hanging about<br>Down the market street<br>I spent a lot of time on my feet<br>When I saw some passing yabbos<br>We did chance to speak<br><br>I knew how to sing<br>Y' know an<br>They knew how to pose<br>An' one of them had a les paul<br>Heart attack machine<br><br>All the young punks<br>Laugh your life<br>Cos there ain't much to cry for<br>All the young cunts<br>Live it now<br>Cos there ain't much to die for<br><br>Everybody wants to bum<br>A ride on the rock 'n' roller coaster<br>And we went out<br>Got our name in small print on the poster<br>Of course we got a manager<br>Though he ain't the mafia<br>A contract is a contract<br>When they get 'em out on yer<br><br>You gotta drag yourself to work<br>Drug yourself to sleep<br>You're dead from the neck up<br>By the middle of the week<br><br>Face front you got the future shining<br>Like a piece of gold<br>But I swear as we get closer<br>It look more like a lump of coal<br>But it's better than some factory<br>Now that's no place to waste your youth<br>I worked there for a week once<br>I luckily got the boot