(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?