I was living in a new town
I had problems with my girlfriend
So I moved on up to London town

Where they say it was all happening, going down.

Living in a bedsit

Bunking on the tube train
Sleeping all day long
'Cause you've got no work

You've got no life
You sit at home
And 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

When it's really those in power who stab you in the back

Living in a bedsit

Bunking on the tube train
Sleeping all day long
'Cause you've got no work

You've got no life
You sit at home
And watch television


Living with unemployment


Round our way
We ain't got a lot
Another five years on the dole

I know I'll be left to rot
But now I'll join the army
Believe it or not

I'm going to a foreign land
I'm gonna get shot


Living in a bedsit
Bunking on the tube train
Sleeping all day long

'Cause you've got no work
You've got no life
You sit at home

And watch television

Living with unemployment

Oh it gets so lonely
Living with unemployment
It gets so frustrating

Living with unemployment
Oh it gets so lonely
Living with unemployment

It gets so frustrating

And it's lonely for them

Lonely for me
Lonely for all of us
Can't you see

That it's lonely for them
Lonely for me
Lonely for all of us

Can't you see

When you're not at work

They treat you like dirt
When you're out of work
They treat you like dirt

When you're not at work
They treat you like dirt
When you're out of work

They treat you like dirt
Treat you treat you treat you like dirt
Treat you treat you treat you like dirt

Treat you treat you treat you like dirt
When you're not at work

Living with unemployment
Oh it gets so lonely

Living with unemployment
It gets so frustrating
Living with unemployment
Oh it gets so lonely
Living with unemployment

It gets so frustrating

Living with unemployment
Living with unemployment
Living with unemployment

Living with unemployment