I was living in a new town, I had problems with my parents
So I moved on up to London town
Where they said that things were all happening, going down
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 who stab you in the back
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
Well, 'round our way, we ain't got a lot
But 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
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, 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
Unemployed, out of work, unemployed, out of work
Unemployed, out of work, unemployed, out of work
Unemployed, unemployed, unemployed, unemployed
"Try to stay, out of trouble, dear"
And it's lonely for you
And it's lonely for me
And it's lonely for all of us, can't you see?
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, oh, you get so lonely
Living with unemployment, it gets so frustrating
Living with unemployment, oh, you get so lonely
Living with unemployment, it gets so frustrating
Living without
When you're out of work, they treat you like dirt
I said, when you're out of work, they treat you like dirt
I said, when you're out of work, they treat you like dirt
Oh, when you're out of work, they treat you like dirt
They treat you like dirt, they treat you like dirt
They treat you, they treat you, oh, oh, they treat you
Well, they treat you like dirt, they treat you like dirt
When you're out of work, they treat you like dirt
It's all part of the plan
Part of the plan (x7)
We are the scroungers (the scroungers) (x4)
Living with unemployment
Lyrics Submitted by Commander Kakapo