The Future's Not What It Used to Be

Outside on the street at 5 AM you know the world has a different face And at dawn in the park as the sun beams break the drunks sing Amazing Grace While the ladies of the night take as a big bright light comes crashing down And you and I put this world to right in this forgotten little part of town Well I heard that they say that the traffic warden dances as Dick Van Dyke does Throwing shapes around parking meters to adored rapturous applause Singing 5 part harmonies and jumping over cars while others dare to sleep Well this city is my playground yeah my circus is this street (Chorus) Singin' now Woah oh the futures not what it used to be So will the last one out please turn off the light, turn off the light (X2) When they came to collect the names of the lads that want to sign up for the army They said they wanna grow up to be a G gave up on trying to be like dad the sparky Why run around 360, like a dog chasing it's tail? The schoolgirls dressed like hookers the hookers dressed like schoolgirls (Chorus) Singin' now Woah oh the futures no what it used to be So will the last one out please turn out the light, turn out the light (X2) Killing and drilling well it's all the understand In the Middle East and Afghanistan They fight over turf. they fight over land If you give them a ting-a-ling While their trigger finger lingers With the second gun slingers They fight over that There's no unity there's just you and me Trying to keep our heads above the lunacy It's just the way we're living And we will never give in To this -ism schism prison That all men and women live in They war over guns they war over God War over land and they war over drugs They war, they war, they war over love War over which God watches from above They war over oil, they war over race Some of them are just warring to save face They war, they war, they war over debt If it's a war they want it's a war that they'll get Woah oh the futures not what it used to be So will the last one out please turn off the light (X3)