The people wanted power and reputation galore

So they became a bunch of bullies

In the Assorted Sizes War

And they sailed around the global block

Looking for some heads to knock

And most of them came home heroes

Heroes in a box

And the rainmaker came to town

And the people got what they wanted

The rainmaker came to town

And everybody got what they need

The rain came falling down

Cats and dogs and buckets

And the rainmaker sailed away on a flood of relief

The people wanted beauty and prettiness and all

So they stretched and they dressed and they made up

And put mirrors on every wall

Till they all went blind from eyestrain

From the thing they wanted most

Now everybody's so isolated

A good-looking bunch of ghosts

CHORUS

The women just wanted their food to keep

Instant potatoes and rubber meat

The kids just wanted to watch TV

Now the girls can't spell and the boys can't read

The men just wanted a steady job

Now they've got to pay the union mob

And everybody wanted to be free

Laws and rules should keep it that way

Hey hey hey

Everybody wants to be happy

Everybody wants to be warm

And be loved and liked and wanted

And have some kind of home

But getting it is work

And keeping it is tough

But destroying it's the easy bit

We've all got the magic touch