The song With Everything to Lose is performed by The Style Council in the album named The Complete Adventures of the Style Council in the year 1998 .
From the playground to the wasteground
Hope ends at 17 -
Sweeping floors and filling shelves
Forced into government schemes -
11 years spent to dig out ditches,
Forget your schoolday dreams -
Guarantees and lie-filled speeches,
But nothings what it seems -
Qualified and patronised and with everything to lose.
No choice or chance for the future
The rich enjoy less tax -
Dress the girls in pretty pink
The shit goes to the blacks
A generation's heart torn out
And covered up the facts
The only thing they'll understand
Is a wall against their backs
The only hope now left for those - with everything to lose.
In desperation empty eyes,
Signed up and thrown away -
There's drugs replacing dignity,
The short sharp shock repaid -
There'll be no money if you dare to question
Working the Tory way -
The truth is up there carved in stone,
Where 21 dead now lay -
A family's loss for a few pounds saved -
With everything to lose.
The Style Council - The Complete Adventures of the Style Council
- Speak Like a Child
- Party Chambers [*]
- Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1 & 2 [Bevans, Bert Alernate Remix][#]
- Mick's Up
- Long Hot Summer
- Paris Match
- Lédepart [*]
- Solid Bond in Your Heart
- It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands
- Mick's Company
- Spring, Summer, Autumn
- Whole Point of No Return
- Blue Caf
- Dropping Bombs on the White House - The Style Council, The Style Council
- Gospel [#]
- Big Boss Groove
- Shout to the Top!
- Ghosts of Dachau
- Piccadilly Trail
- Soul Deep [Bevans, Bert Remix][*]
- Walls Come Tumbling Down!
- Whole Point II
- Bloodsports
- Spin' Drifting
- Homebreakers
- All Gone Away
- Come to Milton Keynes
- Internationalists
- Stone's Throw Away
- Stand Up Comic's Instructions
- Boy Who Cried Wolf
- Man of Great Promise
- Down in the Seine
- Lodgers
- Luck
- With Everything to Lose
- Our Favorite Shop
- (When You) Call Me
- Have You Ever Had It Blue? [Uncut Version]
- Mr. Cool's Dream [*]
- It Didn't Matter
- All Year Round [*]
- Right to Go
- Heavens Above
- Fairy Tales
- Angel
- Walking the Night
- Waiting
- Woman's Song
- Francoise [*]
- Wanted
- Cost of Loving [12" Version] - The Style Council, The Style Council
- Life at a Top Peoples Health Farm [Um & Argh Mix]
- Sweet Loving Ways
- It's a Very Deep Sea
- Story of Someone's Shoe
- Changing of the Guard
- Little Boy in a Castle/A Dove Flew Down from the Elephant
- Gardener of Eden (A Three Piece Suite)
- Why I Went Missing
- How She Threw It All Away
- Iwasadoledadstoyboy
- Confessions 1, 2, & 3
- Confessions of a Pop-Group
- In Love for the First Time
- I Do Like to Be B-Side the A-Side/The Mixed Companions
- Promised Land [Longer Version]
- Can You Still Love Me?
- Long Hot Summer '89
- Everybody's on the Run/Modernism: A New Decade
- New Decade
- World Must Come Together
- Hope (Feelings Gonna Getcha)
- That Spiritual Feeling
- Everybody's on the Run
- Love of the World
- Sure Is Sure