[00:11.25]It's a fine day
[00:12.69]And I'm ambling down the Kingsland Road
[00:14.50]Out to buy a paper and a microphone
[00:16.31]Around the way from my abode
[00:17.74]I spy a dude with a sandwich board
[00:19.81]He's talking about The End of The World
[00:21.45]It's coming from abroad apparently
[00:22.81]Which it might, or mightn't be
[00:24.75]Figure me, we should be closer looking to home
[00:26.56]I pass on anyway and keep my mouth shut
[00:28.81]Because there's not much point
[00:29.94]I spot a kid up on the corner
[00:31.57]And he's smoking a joint
[00:32.57]And from my own experience, I know the coppers sound our way aint lenient
[00:36.31]but who am I to tell him how to live his life?
[00:38.78]It's not like i ever listened as a younger
[00:40.71]Plus he's got a face like thunder
[00:42.95]I leave it
[00:43.58]And weave my way through ladies old and young and fat and falling
[00:46.41]Sun beams down, it's a pretty lush morning
[00:48.62]But something's going down where they're waiting for their buses
[00:51.33]One lone bag is causing something of a ruckus
[00:54.33]Man sitting at the but stop
[00:56.64]Staring at his wristwatch
[00:58.08]Waiting for the bomb drop, tick tock
[00:59.95]I was thinking of all the right things to say
[01:02.40]
[01:04.52]And the girls in the long socks
[01:06.95]Listening to their hi-top hip-hop
[01:08.58]Waiting for the bass-drop
[01:10.43]I was thinking of all the right things to say
[01:14.72]
[01:26.02]Curious, approach a lady and I ask her,
[01:28.27]Whargwarn?
[01:28.47]She says there's a suspicious package and it might just be a bomb
[01:31.44]I think I've had it up to here with all these "suspicious packages"
[01:33.94]Makes as much sense as, like, "pissed off packages"
[01:37.03]Or packages that's "jealous", anyway, she thinks it terrorists
[01:39.16]Like the whole town's teeming with "terrorists"
[01:42.48]Reds Under The Beds turned to terrorists, rah though
[01:44.98]I'd like to point that out, but she might think that I was mad
[01:47.78]So I don't say nothing about the fact that they're exaggerating
[01:49.67]
[01:50.30]How easy it is to control a terrified population
[01:52.73]How I think they're overstating every damn thing...
[01:55.36]Anyway the crowd's increasing, they're all pointing at this thing
[01:57.90]Just then a teenage girl wades through
[01:59.73]Grabs the bag, waves to her crew:
[02:00.85]"I got it!"
[02:01.72]Takes the phone out of the pocket
[02:03.30]Presses play, then bops away
[02:04.86]The people stare, then someone says:
[02:07.14]"What's that terrible tinny racket? Stop it!"
[02:09.02]Man sitting at the but stop
[02:10.94]Staring at his wristwatch
[02:12.13]Waiting for the bomb drop, tick tock
[02:14.55]I was thinking of all the right things to say
[02:19.97]And the girls in the long socks
[02:21.64]Listening to their hi-top hip-hop
[02:23.52]Waiting for the bass-drop
[02:25.27]I was thinking of all the right things to say
[02:30.52]
[02:31.09]And when the lights go out in Highbury
[02:33.52]The library already burned and blown away
[02:41.39]It shouldn't matter now
[02:43.38]Who frightened me, who lied to me
[02:46.81]At least we've got something to say
[02:51.99]Man sitting at the but stop
[02:53.69]Staring at his wristwatch
[02:55.12]Waiting for the bomb drop, tick tock
[02:57.25]I was thinking of all the right things to say
[03:02.49]And the girls in the long socks
[03:04.36]Listening to their hi-top hip-hop
[03:05.85]Waiting for the bass-drop
[03:07.79]I was thinking of all the right things to say
[03:13.35]Man sitting at the but stop
[03:14.98]Staring at his wristwatch
[03:16.49]Waiting for the bomb drop, tick tock
[03:18.61]I was thinking of all the right things to say
[03:23.93]And the girls in the long socks
[03:25.67]Listening to their hi-top hip-hop
[03:27.48]Waiting for the bass-drop
[03:29.29]I was thinking of all the right things to say