E .................. Cm ................... B........... E.................... E A B I'm gonna pack up my troubles in my old kit-bag, I'm gonna run a mile from here E A B 'Cos the ASBO generation make this a terror nation full of loathing and fear A All the bleary-eyed boys getting high on the low street E While the girls lift clothes down the high street and they say, A B Cm "Yeah I know, I know it's wrong but I can't be bothered to pay, B A I got the money but I need it for my dealer today." B And her friends are all the same and they know it's not right Cm B But they were promised more from this life E A And they will steal and they will fight B Because there's nothing for the kids to do today E A And they will haunt the streets at night B Because there's nothing for the kids to do today E A B Shaun has an ASBO, he's only fourteen, he's tired and he's bored with the local police E A "They're pricks," he says, "I didn't get a second chance, B They didn't ask why I did it" A The pigs p 'n' c'in for puttin up his hood E and paedophiles playing his neck of the woods, A B Cm He's got no safety in numbers, his ASBO won't allow him to be hanging around in gangs B A What is he to do? He's been kicked out of school B What a way to fix a fool, we are failing our youth Cm B Parents and governors can you handle the truth? E A And they will steal and they will fight B Because there's nothing for the kids to do today E A And they will haunt the streets at night B Because there's nothing for the kids to do today There's nothing for the kids to do E A Who's to blame? The mainstream media? B Our rulers and idols get greedier and seedier E A They're an embarrassment, they should be shamed B For misguiding our youth, they're the ones to blame A B A E They sit back and watch the evil grow from the youth club ruins where the kids used to go A B Take parts of Salford in Manchester, dying on its feet Cm B While the players at United get a hundred grand a week E The kids love them anyway, it don't make sense A When you have a go at me for the sake of fifty pence Cm B E A Especially when some of you so called "poor kids" have got the money for a digital camcorder B And the time to film a girl whilst you spit-roast her E A You hang about the park but you don't play football B You trouble me for money 'cos you've got to make a drug call (?) A E A B You've got time, you've got money but you wrap it in a joint 'cos you don't see the in using your time for making your Cm dreams come true B A You're all too busy trying to lose our respect for you Why're you proud to be rude? B You're just trying to be cool in front of your mates Cm B That's all that really matters when you're living in hate E A And they will steal and they will fight B Because there's nothing for the kids to do today E A And they will haunt the streets at night B Because there's nothing for the kids to do today A B Why do you wanna grow up, why do you wanna grow so fast and throw your youth away? A B Don't throw your youth away and don't let me hear you say E That there's nothing for the kids to do today There's plenty for the kids to do today Cm There's so much for the kids to do www.theholloways.tk or www.myspace.com/theholloways