Here we go, doing nothing again
You can come if you'd like
But please don't bring your friends
Action man's gone to the cleaners
Barbie is working the streets
They took her in, with a handful of sweets
What can you do? What can you say?
They give me disease on the medium wave
I've got things to do, people to see
I've got no time, please don't bother me
They put all the books on the bonfire
Two-thousand years in a flame
I run like a horse in a fairground
Rewind me and play me again
Once I was a boy, which seems funny to me
Yes, I threw my stones, read my books, climbed those trees
What can I say to you mister?
Yes, I've been drinking again
You can beat my brains, but don't kiss me again
I've always been like this, since I was young
I'm a truculent bigot, I revel in scum
We used to converse, so long ago
Now we're existing in a personal hell
They put all the books on the bonfire
Two-thousand years in a flame
I run like a horse in a fairground
Rewind me and play me again
How'd you feel? I can't use my eyes
What you say?
Thanks for my surprise
I wasn't listening, I didn't know
Tell me what happened, where did I go?
I'm pulling my hair, I lay on the floor
The paper's aren't funny, not funny no more
They put all the books on the bonfire
Two-thousand years in a flame
Yes, I run like a horse in a fairground
Rewind me and play me again
Oh, I wasn't listening, I didn't know
Tell me what happened, where did I go?
I'm pulling my hair, I lay on the floor
The paper's aren't funny, not funny no more
I've always been like this, since I was young
I'm a truculent bigot, I revel in scum
You can beat my brains, beat my brains, beat my brains
But don't kiss me again