Before everything went pear shaped\\
We took our vitamins and felt great\\
Almost round the bend with the end of the tunnel in sight\\
Before someone turned out the light\\
Now where are the factories to practise what we preach\\
with the pinnacle of cynical so easily in reach\\
Somewhere in the alphabet there's a word I can't pronounce\\
For the feeling that I always get when a newsflash is announced\\
Thanks for the loss of memory\\
Of how things probably used to be\\
A make believe made up for me\\
when I was just a boy\\

(Stand back)\\
This is the police\\
There's nothing for you to see\\
Just an outline drawn in chalk\\
Round the victim's rotting corpse\\
Don't drive across the state\\
To rubberneck and gape\\
At the blue and white plastic tape\\
Round the world that's gone pear shaped\\

Your future rests on a lucky guess\\
but wherever you choose to go\\
Try a little tenderness and a bit of self control\\
don't let temptation, frustration and the blues\\
make you an offer that you cannot refuse\\
Desire is the driver\\
fear is in the frame\\
Greed is an accessory\\
but society is to blame\\

(Stand back)\\
This is the police\\
There's nothing for you to see\\
Just an outline drawn in chalk\\
Round the victim's rotting corpse\\
Don't drive across the state\\
To rubberneck and gape\\
At the blue and white plastic tape\\
Round the world that's gone pear shaped\\

Thanks for the loss of memory\\
of how things probably used to be\\
A make believe made up for me\\
when I was just a boy\\

We don't want to grow up feeling this insecure\\
We don't want to grow up feeling this insecure\