Country House

And so the the story beginsCity dweller, successful fellaThought to himself oops I’ve got a lot of moneyI’m caught in a rat race terminallyI’m a professional cynic but my heart’s not in itI’m paying the price of living life at the limitCaught up in the centuries anxietyIt preys on him, […]


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Fade Away

They stumbled into their livesIn a vague way became man and wifeOne got the other they deserved one anotherThey settled in a brand new townWith people from the same backgroundThey kept themselves busyLong hours left them dizzyNow when he’s in, she’s out All you ever do is fade awayAll you […]


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Best Days

Over the river they all go againOut into leafy nowhere hope someone’s waiting out there for themCabbie has his mind on a fare to the sunHe works nights but it’s not much funPicks up the london yo-yosAll on their own down sohoTake me home Other people wouldn’t like to hear […]


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Dan Abnormal

Meanie Leanie come on downCome and entertain the townIt’s friday night and we’re all boredTimes being called there is no moreTimes being called it’s such a bore Dan Abnormal not normal at allIt’s not his fault we made him this wayHe’ll imitate you, try to ape youBut it’s not his […]


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Globe Alone

Who met this one on the m1Who hasn’t stopped sucking his thumbWho very straight and never grinsWho cars what car he’s driving in He is because he saw it on a commercial breakAnd if he doesn’t get what he wants then he’ll get a headacheBecause he needs it, wants it, […]


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Mr. Robinsons’ Quango

Mr. robinson and his quangoDirty dealer, expensive carRuns the buses and the evening starHe got a hairpiece and he got herpesHis private life is very discreetA nicer man you’re never going to meetA self professed saviour of the dim right wingHe’s got respiratory problems and a masons ring Mr. robinson […]


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Stereotypes

The suburbs they are dreaming, they are a twinkle in her eyeShe’s been feeling frisky since her husband said goodbyeShe wears a low cut t-shirt runs a little bmwShe’s most accommodating when she’s in her lingerieWife swapping is the future, you know that it would suit you Yes, they’re stereotypes, […]


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It Could Be You

Churchill got his lucky number but tomorrow there’s anotherCould be me, could be you, no silver spoonSticky teeth they rot too soonYou’ve got to have the best tunes or that’s it, you’ve blown it All we want is to be happy in our homes like happy familiesBe the man on […]


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Ernold Same

Ernold same awoke from the same dream in the same bed at the same timeLooked in the same mirror made the same frownAnd felt the same way as he did every dayThen ernold same caught the same train at the same stationSat in the same seat with the same nasty […]


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Entertain Me

We can’t do backBut so is heHead to the floodlightsSee the fraternityThey’re waitingI hear them up in the northAnd down in the southAnd all that is spewingSpewing out of his mouthEntertain me, entertain meEntertain me, entertain me At his and hers datingBored minds agreeRequirements to be statedReplies awaitedShe wants a […]


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He Thought Of Cars

Moscow’s still red, the young man is deadGone to heaven instead, the evening news says he was confusedThe motorways will all merge soon, lottery winner buys the moonThey’ve come to save us, the space invaders are here He thought of cars and where, where to drive themWho to drive them […]


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Charmless Man

I met him in a crowded roomWhere people go to drink away their gloomHe sat me down and so beganThe story of a charmless manEducated the expensive wayHe knows his claret from a beaujolaisI think he’d like to have been Ronnie KrayBut then nature didn’t make him that way He […]


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