Something
always
keeps you scurrying
With problems and with worrying
There's additives in the fittles
And there's poisons in the air
There's kids with problem parents
And you can't imagine
Where you'll get the money
To pay the bills
You're getting old, getting fat
Behind the Joneses
Lost your job and a top batch
You've got no matches for the gas
Your head is always aching
And the earth is always quaking
And the kids are runnin' wild
Cuts, cuts, more cuts
Cholesterol, a national front
Traffic jams, a neutron bomb
Afghanistan is rainin' on your holidays
And still you try to smile
Deficits and overflows
The hurdles and the undertoes
Have we got enough without
The nuclear sideshow?
Every time you turn around
You're shellin' out another pound
The mortgage, the petrol
The insurance and the rent
A flutter on the pools
This could be a ruinous event
B -A -T -P -A -Y -E -E -E -C
Alimony by 83 will be on our knees
And the Portuguese will
send us foreign aid
You pay to read the news about inflation
And the nation doesn't
buy the kids their shoes
Kirby grips a kitty cat,
a drop of booze
And little things like clothes,
food, heat, light, rates
And your Mediterranean cruise
Plenty of ways to lose your pence
From dire need to extravagance
Haven't we got enough without
the nuclear expenses?
Everything without a doubt
is wearing thin and wearing out
Gas and oil are given out,
the pop runs out of beer
Your teeth are full of fillings
and the peace talks disappear
Along with the strike negotiations,
relations with your relations
Cities crumbled
and there's holes in all the sheets
Your marriage needs repairing,
lots of truncheons
Wearing out with hidden folks
between the ears
Broken -down machines
combine to wear you down
more than the passing of your years
Whatever it is that's getting you down
by breaking up and breaking down
Haven't we got enough
without a nuclear meltdown?
The finest plans of men and mice of
ten don't turn out so nice
The little mite, the microwave,
the bridge across the Tay
Getting married can be great
until the second day
DC -10s again and again,
DDT, Rolling Point, Concord
Join the army,
don't forget your dolk on shield
There's junctions like spaghetti
and we elect the Iron Lady
And the B -man in the suit,
Agent Orange
Mini Metro, Maxi Hindenburg
They even built a hospital
with an enema room without a
loo
Longadoodledoo
Guinea pigs of every nation,
let's announce our abdication
Haven't we had enough
without a nuclear miss?
A miss is who?
Calculation
You can die of suffocation
or go up in a conflagration
If you find the transportation
you can die among the wheels
There's drowning,
falling down the stairs
and choking on your meals
Cigarettes and drugs or guns
and clubs and knives
In the hands of thugs and mugs
of husbands an d their wives
There's suicide and cancer
or there's falling off a cliff
Or just an overdose of flu
Dying of shock on budget day,
drinking all your cares away
Cholera, diphtheria, hysteria,
or snakebite
in the jungles of Peru
Plenty of ways of getting faster
to the day you breathe your last
Oh, Ham, we got enough
without a nuclear disaster
All the things you like to do,
the very things you'd hate to lose
Sons and lovers, wife and kids,
the smell of treacle tart
West Ham winning at home,
we're dabbling in the arts
Bacon and egg,
and bacon and egg,
and bacon and egg,
and books, flowers, clouds
Garden men and fishin',
sleepin' in and wishin' you was winning
The bonds are simply gazing into space
Once upon a time a loaf of bread,
a double bed,
a glass of wine, my love and you
I've even heard it said
that women get their kicks
from watching little heartbeat
soldiers marching down the loo
Doo -da -loo -da -loo
All the good things that attract you,
don't forget that it's a fact
that all of it could be lost
because of a nuclear reactor.
There's answers everywhere you look,
they could be in the holy book.
There's power in the wind and water,
power from the sun.
There's energy from outer space,
from now to kingdom come.
Insulation, conservation,
control the population,
make McDonald's with a soybean.
And all things geothermal,
they're infernal,
cause no profits can be made.
Of course we could share out the wealth,
but some will say it'd ruin their health.
They'd have to go by
train or by cycling.
And recycling all the plastic
and the glass,
the news of the world, the metals,
and the nasty biodegradable things
that live down in the drains.
There's reforming of
our institutions,
maybe a little re volution.
Just remember that the nuclear way
may any day turn out to be
a very final solution.
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