The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death

Fun, fun, fun (Jeremy)
Me, me, me (Fifi)
Take, take, take (Jeremy)
Fun, fun, fun
James Dean posters on their wall
{Five killed in a car-crash}
What a sad little end to it all
{Five killed in a car-crash}
Last seen having lots of fun
{Five dumped in a river}
Barefoot and on the run
{Five dumped in a river}

I am mad from Scandinavia
I want a guy in the London area
He must be crazy and Sagitarius
'Cause I'm Leo and I'm hilarious

Fun, fun, fun (Jeremy)
Me, me, me (Fifi)
Take, take, take (Jeremy)
Fun, fun, fun

Last seen drinking Daddy's own beer
{Five poisoned over dinner}
Singing Abba's "Mamma Mia"
{Five poisened over dinner}
Drop dead watching Thunderbirds fly
{Five get over excited}
Poster on their wall says "Why?"
{Five get over excited}

I am Guy from Camden Town
My hair is curly but I gel it down
My clothes are black buyt my bread is brown
I'm really into early Motown

Fun, fun, fun (Jeremy)
Me, me, me (Fifi)
Take, take, take (Jeremy)
Fun, fun, fun

Feigning concern, a conservative pastime
Makes you feel doubtful right from the start
The expression she pulls is exactlly like last time
You've got to conclude she just hasn't a heart

Clambering men in big bad boots
Dug up my den, dug up my roots
Treated us like plasticine town
They built us up and knocked us down
From Meccano to Legoland
Here they come with a brick in their hand
Men with heads filled up with sand
It's build

It's build a house where we can stay
Add a new bit everyday
It's build a road for us to cross
Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots

Whistling men in yellow vans
They can and drew us diagrams
Showed us how it all worked it out
And wrote it down in case of doubt

Slow, slow, quick, quick, quick
It's wall to wall and brick to brick
They work so fast it makes you sick
It's build

It's build a house where we can stay
Add a new bit everyday
It's build a road for us to cross
Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots

It's build

Down with sticks and up with bricks
In with boots and up with roots
It's in with suits and new recruits
It's build

Please don't show your soul to me
I think I'd see the light shine through
And please don't greet me on the street
I'd like to see a world without you
Please don't change your uniform
And start to mourn the thousands dead
And please wear what you've always worn
And don't be drawn by what I've said

'Cause I've found there's nothing more
That I could say to you
Nothing I could do to change your mind
Change your ways and your tune

So please don't feel you have to sway
Or move away from how you feel
And please say what you mean to say
And always stay with a heart of steel

They smiled so much and waved their flags
As she saluted to the military band
Most of the people failed to see
She had a broken bottle in the other hand
And she took them by surprise
When she took them by the throat
And said "My friend you're not allowed to vote"
But they shook it all off
With a nervous laugh and cough
"Next time," she said "I'll let those people choke"

The people who grinned themselves to death
Smiled so much they failed to take a breath
And even when their kids were starving
They all thought the queen was charming

She polished all upon the wall
And ran her hands right through her hair
So if the lady took the time to call
All the houses on the street would not compare

And she thought it really funny
That she hadn't any money
But those she looked up to, they had
But they shook it all off
With a nervous laugh and cough
And when they took her riches it was sad

The people who grinned themselves to death
Smiled so much they failed to take a breath
And even when their kids were starving
They all thought the queen was charming

As Martin said to Xanthe
As they played with wooden toys
"You may have Wendy's playhouse
But where the heel's your boys?"
As Paul said to Fifi
As they eyed each other up
"You may have better plimsoles
But you can't pee standing up"

And I'd like to take the time to bite
Their neck and make it bleed
Or maybe I could cut holes in their
Daddy's Harris Tweed

And I can't put my finger on it
Maybe it's something in their food
And I cna't put my finger on it
All I know is Christ would've sued

As Sharon said to Jamie
As they sat down for a chat
"If you think I'm cooking dinner
Well, prepare to eat dead rat"

As Debbie said to Alex
As they held hands in the park
"How come you wear Rupert Check
When you think you're so hard"

I should've done his Land Rover
To let him know I'd been
Instead I wrote "F' off"
On the dirt across his screen

And I can't put my finger on it
Maybe it's something in their food
And I cna't put my finger on it
All I know is Christ would've sued

I wish I'd let them know that I was here
A drop of arsenic in the wine
Sulphuric acid in the beer

We dig our models with the brains the size of models
And cars that we can trust with out wives
And we dig converstations with girls from every nation
But not the ones that whisper or tell lies

Wherever there's a will there's a motorway
Wherever there is greed there is speed
And they've always got to be there for yesterday
Welcome to the new Scalextric's breed

And the light they always show to them
Is green, green, green
And the heels they always show to me
Are clean, clean, clean

We're only flying past so we dig our sevice fast
From the waiters to the women to the wine
Never mind the match, I've an urgent date to catch
Get me to the concert hall on time

Pretending to be pilots in a war
Pretending to weave between the flak
No-one knows what the mission's for
Blinkered horses on the track

And the light they always show to them
Is green, green, green
And the heels they always show to me
Are clean, clean, clean