Walking in a crocodile 'round and 'round all day
Sometimes if we're lucky we can get away
Listen to the radio humming in your ear
The buzz of electricity propels the tender years
Singing hymns in Latin, polishing your shoes
Letters via the laundry, experiments with booze
Watching cabins burning, rude words on a car
Escaping on an exeat to the cinema
Now we're dunking biscuits, now we're sipping tea
Living like vegetables, dying for a pee
Now we're wearing glasses, as deaf as dumb can be
Forgotten all the alphabet except the letter P
Running 'round in circles in the Midlands smog
Smoking foreign cigarettes inside the outside bog
Learning chess from Jennifer, I wish I knew her now
She's lost and gone forever, won't feel her hand upon my brow
The Beatles hit the headlines, Cassius Clay hit someone else
Christine Keeler looked so pretty, even in a dress
Pretending we were macho when we were just cadets
How the strings were jerking on little marionettes
Now we're dunking biscuits, now we're sipping tea
Living like vegetables, dying for a pee
Now we're wearing glasses, as deaf as dumb can be
Forgotten all the alphabet except the letter P