Time for Heroes

Did you see the stylish kids in the riot?

Shovelled up like muck and set the night on fire

Wombles bleed, truncheons and shields

You know I cherish you, my love

But there's a rumour spread nasty disease around town

You caught 'round the houses with your trousers down

A headrush in the bush

You know I cherish you, my love

Oh, how I cherish you, my love

Tell me what can you want, now you've got it all

The scene is obscene, time will strip it away

A year and a day

And Bill Bones, Bill Bones knows what I mean

He knows it's eating, it's chewing me up

It's not right for young lungs to be coughing up blood

And it's all, it's all in my hands

And it's all up the walls

Now the stale chips are up and they hope stakes are down

It's all these ignorant faces that bring this town down

And I sighed and sunken with pride

Well, I passed myself down on my knees

Yes, I passed myself down on my knees

Now tell me what can you want, now you've got it all

The scene is obscene, time will strip it away

A year and a day

And Bill Bones, Bill Bones knows what I mean

He knows there's fewer more distressing sights than that

Of an Englishman in a baseball cap

And we'll die in the class we were born

Well, that's a class of our own, my love

A class of our own, my love

Did you see the stylish kids in the riot?

Shovelled up like muck, set the night on fire

Wombles bleed, truncheons and shields

You know I cherish you, my love

Yeah, I cherish you, my love