Over cloudbursts I saw you Pleasure waits at the pier Smell the beer Helter skelter over here With some sugar and the birds and a cheer... Woozy heads like a dodgem Seagulls chat on the wall Bowling ball Stripey gent, he's ten foot tall Wooden leg wins it all, what a day... And the rollers, the coasters They waltz round a lifetime Belong in a different age They're swingin' collectively Spinning obsessively Down at the desperately strange This is a little confession I've seen them around and I've heard that they're strange We'll sing our shanties in the rain We'll drink those bottles dry again Hip hooray We can jive away the day And the wurlitzer will play anyway And the rollers, the coasters They waltz round a lifetime Belong in a different age They're swingin' collectively Spinning obsessively Down at the desperately strange Carnival chemistry Free from complexity Down at the desperately strange