[Verse 1]
My generation's in a state,   we're a nation in the gutter,
pass the queue for the food bank every day.
Would you get some bread and butter?
 I see a single mother signing on,   just to keep her baby eating,
while her teenage son shots gear to fund   the lekky and the heating.
 
[Chorus]
And people say:   God only knows what we're trying for,
  God only knows what we're dying for.
 
[Verse 2]
I see the local lads who did smash-and-grabs   on tag outside probation,
I see the demonized and traumatized   by social deprivation.
It's too gentrified to attempt to die   in th? block where life started
'cause they regenerate every estate   to cleanse the working classes.
 
[Chorus]
And people say:   God only knows what we're trying for,
people say:   God only knows what we're dying for.
And people say:   God only knows what we're trying for,
  God only knows what we're dying for.
 
[Bridge]
'Cause we are the dreamers and lo-vers
with nothing to live for but one ano - ther.
 
[End-Chorus]
  God only knows what we're trying for,
  God only knows what we're dying for.
  God only knows what we're trying for,
  God only knows what we're dying for.
  God only knows what we're trying for,
  God only knows what we're dying for.
  God only knows what we're trying for,
  God only knows what we're dying for.