[Verse 1]

One war, two wars

But the war that did for you

Was the class war, old boy

Manicured hands still rule

[Verse 2]

In no hope streets

Poverty eats desire

The stray dog returns to the coal hole

To lick his wounds and await the fire

[Verse 3]

The key that doesn't fit

The swimmer against the tide

The spider in the jar

The arrow in the eye

[Verse 4]

With blood and bluster

And body blows

Piss, teeth and sawdust

Down the Walworth road

[Verse 5]

You rose with the match girls

And with Suez you fell

Serenaded with shells

And black London hells

[Verse 6]

The world shakes and scatters

Blood, mud and rats

Your world shatters

Now it's just you and your cats