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A pop song. The bridge into the verse is a rip off from Deep Purples Highway Star. The lyrics about the Swedish Youth Law (Ungdomslag) which forced unemployed youths to work four hours a day to get the welfare check. A measure that pushed aside real jobs and made the unemployment of the youth permanent. For us kids in Landskrona it was a disaster. The unemployment was higher than anywhere else in the country due to the closure of the ship yard a couple of years before. Both Svegis and Puma was forced to work under this law.

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This country was filled with unemployed youths
So they worked out something for us to do
No matter what it is, as long as were not on the dole
This country has no longer no kids unemployed

Chorus:
This is real good for the statistics
But it's a rip off for all the kids
This is real good for the statistics,
But it's a rip off
We ain't got no unemployed youth
'cause all the kids got something to do
We ain't got no unemployed youth
But we've got the longest welfare queue

They're forcing us to work four hours a day
The works a bore, we have to go any way
Cleaning windows, doing all the shit
For a minimum pay, there's no point in it

Chorus:

They're forcing us to work four hours a day
We have to go to work to get the rent paid
We ain't got no money and that's no fun
But that's the way you're doing us to the ground

Chorus:

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from No Future in the Past, The Best and The Rest (free download), released November 2, 2008

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The Bristles Landskrona, Sweden

The Bristles is a raw punk band formed in 1982 from Landskrona, Sweden. The band broke up in 1985. In 2008 reunited. In 2010 the album Reflections Of The Bourgeois Society was out, In 2012 the band’s 2:nd album, Bigger than Punk, was released.
In 2014 the cassette EP "Val"" was out and now the the new album Last Days of Capitalism" is out Oct 23 2015.
Feb. 2018 the spilt 7" single with Rövsvett. ... more

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