Up in the morning and out to school
  Mother says there be no work next year
  Quantifications once the Golden Rule are now just pieces of paper
  Just because you're better than me doesn't mean I'm lazy.
  Just because you're going forwards doesn't mean I'm going backwards.
  Well if you look the part well then you'll get the job in last year's trousers and your oldschool shoes
  The truth is son it's a buyer's market they can afford to pick and choose
  Just because you're better than me doesn't mean I'm lazy
  Just because I dress like this doesn't mean I'm a Communist.
  Well the factory's 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 room or a dozen few
  Well at 21 you're atop of the scrap heap
  At 16 you were top of your class
  Well I dropped outta high school in Cambell, CA
  Got a guitar and I never looked back