Shoulder Pads 1

[Intro]

All these fads

It's shoulder pads

[Verse 1]

On New Year's Dawn, to my surprise

All the McCullochs stayed at home

Picking antiques and clothes-es

Cosy flecked with green bits

Main undercurrent, white spermatoze

[Bridge 1]

My powers against them, half useless

My senses allied half party

[Verse 2]

Was embarrassed, but stuck with them

Walked at shoulder, down the street, ridicule

They couldn't tell Lou Reed from Doug Yule

Suppressed hate ferments

It was like being back at school

[Bridge 2]

My powers before them resound

My powers languish in time, doom

[Verse 3]

Went populist, internal defeat

Their mob had a coup d'etat

Realize what they'd always wanted

Knew I was right all along

It wasn't then a Beatles song

Superhero in harlequin kecks

Dimwit lecture, half read

Kissing black singers ten years dead

[Outro]

Was a clown in victim hat

Was shouldered and spurned

Then my powers did return