When I was a boy I had a lot of fun
I lived by the sea, I was a fisherman's son
My mother
she was a fisherman's wife
She was scrubbing floors most of her life
They said screw
you
I ain't got nothing to lose
I could paper a matchbox
With the money I use
At the school I attended I got into fights
I was beaten in an alley on a cold winter
night
The teachers cared less for the blood in our veins
They got most of their thrills
out of using a cane
They said screw you
Oh you bloody young fools
I could get
more sense
Out of the back end of a mule
So you see there's man who get paid for
being slaves
And men who get paid for being free
And there's men behind bars who pray for
the light
And men in the suburbs who pray for the night
And they're all trying to climb to
the top of the mine
And all of them say most of the way
Screw you
I worked in
the mill from seven till nine
Tears in my eyes nearly drove me half-blind
Trying to make
wages that weren't even there
Taking hell from a foreman with the build of a bear
He
said screw you
This is all you'll ever do
It's the only existence for someone like you
