This is how it starts up A slap and a cry The slaps keep coming For the rest of your life And you don't know who to question And you don't know how to fight You just hope that by the end It turns out alright
There's only one flavour Only one way to go No opposition Only one view to hold
I weathered out those anxious years Of boom and slump In a tree and a tunnel and a tent And a truck by a garbage dump My life was like a motorway My wheels were square Sometimes I wonder How I got anywhere
Every crank, poet, genius Pressured off the devious Tied to the coat-tails Speeding down the monorail ... Only one flavour!
I woke up and I was driving There was blood on my hands I felt like a stranger In an over-familiar land Well, we all fall to the centre But my eyes are full of stars Sometimes I wonder How I ever got this far