Gets up to a seven-forty-seven every day

To a copy of the Daily Mail in his letter tray

Chequered slippers by the bed

Powdered aspirin for his head

One poached egg on toast

A dash of salt a pinch at most

Bell rings in the hallway but it's junk mail again

Petition from the council now you can never win

And it's two for one, and it's five pounds off

Deal of a lifetime now you can spread the cost

So Mr Resistor makes his way down the drive

Carrying his bag for life and eyeing up his neighbours wife

And he sings

Do do do, do-do, do do do

Oh he sings

Do do do, do-do, do do do

Buying a spark plug at the car boot fair

Off cuts at the butchers straightening his hair

Pushing trolleys screaming prams

She's two weeks late for best laid plans

Now it's two for one and it's five pounds off, aww but

Deal of a lifetime now you can spread the cost

So Mr Resistor sits to watch the crowds go by, do do do do-do

Studying their faces and the curve of the sky

Perfectly happy not to feel and not know why, aww he just

Thinks what he thinks and he doesn't know how to cry

No he doesn't

And in the slender hours he potters down the high street

Shutters coming down he's alone again

And it's all for one and he's five years off