(Everybody E-E-Everybody 
Everybody E-E-Everybody 
Everybody E-E-Everybody 
Everybody jump to attention...) 
 
Each morning after Sunblest 
Feel the benefit, mental arithmetic 
I waited by the staffroom 
In time for benediction 
Living a law just short of delusion 
When we fall in love there's confusion 
This must be the place I waited years to leave 
 
To our voices nobody's listening 
We shiver in the rain by the touchline 
Then a coach ride to the station 
"My lord, the carriage awaiteth!" 
Living a law just short of delusion 
When we fall in love there's confusion 
This must be the place I waited years to leave 
This must be the place I waited years to leave 
And how 
How long? 
 
I'm listening to the words I thought I'd never hear again 
A litany of saints and other ordinary men 
Kneeling on the parquet 
Whatever has gone wrong? 
The fear and feeling hopelessness 
I don't want to belong 
 
I dreamt I was back in uniform 
And a candidate for examination 
History, someone had blundered 
And a voice rapped "knuckle under!" 
Living a law just short of delusion 
When we fall in love there's confusion 
This must be the place I waited years to leave 
This must be the place I waited years to leave 
And how 
And how 
How long? 
 
(Trebuet nash narod odnogo) 
[Our people demand only...]