The Clash - Career Opportunities lyrics

They 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?

Career opportunity, the one that never knocks
Every job they offer you's to
Keep you out the dock
Career opportunity, the one that never knocks

I hate the army and I hate the RAF
I don't wanna go fighting
In the tropical heat
I hate the civil service rules
I won't open letter bombs for you

Career opportunity, the one that never knock
Every job they offer you's to


Keep you out the dock
Career opportunity, the one that never knock

Oi bus driver
Ambulance man the ticket inspector
I don't understand

They're gonna have to introduce conscription
They're gonna have to take
Away my prescription
If they wanna get me makin' toys
If they wanna get me, well, I got no choice

Career opportunity, the one that never knock
Every job they offer you's to
Keep you out the dock
Career opportunity, the one that never knock

Career career
Career it ain't never gonna knock