Books on the Bonfire

Here we go, doing nothing again
You can come if you'd like, but please don't bring your friends
Action man's gone to the cleaners
Barbie is working the streets, they took her in, with a handful of sweets

What can you do? What can you say?
They give me disease on the medium wave
I've got things to do, people to see
I've got no time, please don't bother me

They put all the books on the bonfire
Two-thousand years in a flame
I run like a horse in a fairground, rewind me and play me again

Once I was a boy, which seems funny to me
Yes, I threw my stones, read my books, climbed those trees
What can I say to you mister?
Yes, I've been drinking again
You can beat my brains, but don't kiss me again

I've always been like this, since I was young
I'm a truculent bigot, I revel in scum
We used to converse, so long ago
Now we're existing in a personal hell

They put all the books on the bonfire
Two-thousand years in a flame
I run like a horse in a fairground, rewind me and play me again

How'd you feel? I can't use my eyes
What you say?
Thanks for my surprise

I wasn't listening, I didn't know
Tell me what happened, where did I go?
I'm pulling my hair, I lay on the floor
The paper's aren't funny, not funny no more

They put all the books on the bonfire
Two-thousand years in a flame
Yes, I run like a horse in a fairground, rewind me and play me again

Oh, I wasn't listening, I didn't know
Tell me what happened, where did I go?
I'm pulling my hair, I lay on the floor, the paper's aren't funny, not funny no more
I've always been like this, since I was young
I'm a truculent bigot, I revel in scum
You can beat my brains, beat my brains, beat my brains, but don't kiss me again

(They put all the books on the bonfire
Two-thousand years in a flame
I run like a horse in a fairground, rewind me and play me again)
Beat my brains, beat my brains, beat my brains, but don't kiss me again