Of all the bars and all the pubs
And all the late night drinking clubs
You had to walk into them all
You've been drinking to forget
You need to keep your thinking set
On what you did before the war
Befor the bugler changed his tune
When everything was Mills and Boon
And lovers issed beneath the stars
Now they've flattened all the flats
It's time to batten down the hatch
With another whisky from the bar
And drink yourself under the table
Terrestrial TV and cable
The wireless and the Internet
Remind us what we're drinking to forget
It's something more than just the guilt
You can't be sure, you must have k**ed
But you really can't be sure
When progress moves so fast
It leaves us in the past
With platform shoes and dinosaurs
Close your eyes and count to ten
Forget the whys and wheres
And when you feel sober
It still isn't over
There's more
Sell your house
And change your name
Because you'll never be the same man
That you were
Befor the war