LIFE'S A RIOT IN SPYvs SPY -1983 and BACK TO BASICS - 1987
WORDS and MUSIC: Billy Bragg - 1983
Notes
Open Chords G C G Em D G - Repeated through song
Chords:Verse
Up in the morning and out in school
Mother says there'll be no work next year
Qualification once the Golden Rule
Are now just pieces of paper
Chorus
Just because you're better then me
Doesn't mean I'm lazy
Just because you're going forwards
Doesn't mean I'm going backwards
Verse
If you look the part you'll get the job
In last year's trousers and your old school shoes
The truth is, son, it's a buyers market
They can afford to pick and choose
Chorus
Just because you're better then me
Doesn't mean I'm lazy
Just because I dress like this
Doesn't mean I'm a Communist!
Verse
The factories are closing and the army's full
I don't know what I'm going to do
But I've come to see, in the Land of the Free
There's only a future for the Chosen Few
Chorus
Just because you're better then me
Doesn't mean I'm lazy
Just because you're going forwards
Doesn't mean I'm going backwards
Verse
At 21 you're on top of the scrapheap
At 16 you were top of you're class
All they taught you at school
Was how to be a good worker
The system has failed you, don't fail yourself
Chorus
Just because you're better then me
Doesn't mean I'm lazy
Just because you're going forwards
Doesn't mean I'm going backwards
