life on mars

• it's a god-awful small affair
  to the girl with the mousy hair
  but her mummy is yelling no
  and her daddy has told her to go
  but her friend is nowhere to be seen
  now she walks through her sunken dream
  to the seat with the clearest view
  and she's hooked to the silver screen
  but the film is a saddening bore
  for she's lived it ten times or more
  she could spit in the eyes of fools
  as they ask her to focus on
  
  sailors fighting in the dance hall
  oh man! look at those cavemen go
  it's the freakiest show
  take a look at the lawman
  beating up the wrong guy
  oh man! wonder if he'll ever know
  he's in the best selling show
  is there life on mars?
  
  it's on amerikas tortured brow
  that mickey mouse has grown up a cow
  now the workers have struck for fame
  cause lennon's on sale again
  see the mice in their million hordes
  from ibeza to the norfolk broads
  rule britannia is out of bounds
  to my mother, my dog, and clowns
  but the film is a saddening bore
  cause i wrote it ten times or more
  it's about to be writ again
  as i ask you to focus on
  
  sailors fighting in the dance hall
  oh man! look at those cavemen go
  it's the freakiest show
  take a look at the lawman
  beating up the wrong guy
  oh man! wonder if he'll ever know
  he's in the best selling show
  is there life on mars?