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Artist: Dropkick Murphys
Canonical path: /dropkick-murphys/career-opportunites
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Career Opportunites
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Career Opportunites
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The offered me the office,
offered me the shop.
They said I'd better take
anything they'd got.
Do you wanna make tea
at the BBC?
Do you wanna be,
do you really wanna be a cop?
(no fuckin' way)
Career opportunities
are the ones that never knock
Every job they offer you is
to keep you out the dock
Career opportunity,
the ones that never knock.
I hate the army an'
I hate the Cambridge Police.
I don't wanna go fighting in
the tropical heat
I hate the civil service rules
And I won't open letter bombs
for you
Career opportunities
are the ones that never knock Every job they offer you is to keep you out the dock Career opportunity,
the ones that never knock.
Oi Oi Oi,
Carney Givens,
Arthur McGilvrey,
Bobby Linchsky
They're gonna have to
introduce conscription.
They're gonna have to take
away my prescription.
If they wanna get me making toys,
If they wanna get me, well,
I got no choice
Career opportunities
are the ones that never knock
Every job they offer you
is to keep you out the dock
Career opportunity,
the ones that never knock.
Careers, Careers, Careers...
Ain't never gonna knock.
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