What a waste, what a waste..
Died by accident of birth
Born with a plastic gun in his mouth
What a waste.

Just a boy trying to be a man
Died in an alley with a gun in his hand
Met the needle in his mothers womb
Sang his life to a different tune
Granny cried that she’d done her best
But he suckled heroine at his mothers breas
What a waste

Inner city deprivation Capitalist masturbation
Build a city financed by drugs
Open a Casino run by thugs
Build a fortune based on “Smack”
We don’t care, were All Rright Jack
But what a waste.

We don’t care cos we can manage
Another kid is just collateral damage
We sit here with our ice cool beers
Crying out our Champagne tears
But what a waste.