The English Beat - Get-a-job lyrics

boys and girls of real ambition

start a new job in a factory

where they're making ammunition

but it makes them think of stealing

when they read between the lines

through the owners of this funfair

you won't find a ride you like

just get-a-job, get-a-job

manufacture rubbish

although no one can afford it

you could make a profit

more than anyone deserves

so you find you're left with poison

so you dump it in our water

and so create the kind of problems

only radiation cures

through get-a-job, get-a-job

oh you young people are revolting

8 to 5 should give the jolt needed

in a few years you won't feel quite the same

you'll be playing their get-a-job games

there's a training camp when

you come from from saving nations

get a new job and a new leg

social rehabilitation

every time you thing of leaving

you get caught between the lines

it's the training for the funfair

you get taken for a ride

you!

just get-a-job, get-a-job

just get-a-job, get-a-job