Career Opportunities

Album: The Clash (1977)
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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 want to make tea at the BBC?
    Do you want to be, do you really want to be a cop?

    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 R.A.F.
    I don't want to go fighting in the tropical heat
    I hate the civil service rules
    And I won't open letter bombs for you

    Bus driver
    Ambulance man
    Ticket inspector

    They're gonna have to introduce conscription
    They're gonna have to take away my prescription
    If they want to get me making toys
    If they want to get me, well, I got no choice

    Careers
    Careers
    Careers

    Ain't never gonna knock Writer/s: JOE STRUMMER, MICK JONES, PAUL SIMONON, TOPPER HEADON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Rodrigo from Paradise City, --This song talks about the lack of jobs, particularly, to youth.
    The line "I won't open letter bombs for you" is a reference to a Mick Jones former job where he opened letters for a British goverment department to make sure they weren't rigged with mailbombs.
  • Jay Wo from Dallas, Tx"I won't open letter bombs for you". Allegedy Joe Strummer was offered a job in a mail room for this purpose.
  • Don from NewmarketA different version of this song sung by children, was used on Sandanista!
  • Ralph from Newton, MaGreat f'ing song. One of the Clash's best.
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