Yesterday's child is not in control

Not down with the rock, not down with the roll

Go, go, go on my scrawny white attack

All the kids are right, all the chicks are black

I want to be lapsed Catholic

Earn my sacred heart, full colour, high tech

Jung at heart, Wilde inside

See the world through Jackson Pollock's eyes

So bring out your dead, 'cos they'll never know

Rob them of possessions, and leave them in the snow

I see people treat people

Tall flats, short steeples

Painted on your daddy's arm

Wasted in your mummy's car

You're sixteen and you feel so lonely

Signing up for some Commie army

(Killed someone at thirteen) Endless psychology

(O.D'd on Sunny D) Endless psychology

You think you're hard, you think you're metal

Cut your nipple, Red Kross medal

Out of speed, out of breath

Stop now before you think yourself to death

Painted on your daddy's arm

Wasted in your mummy's car

You're sixteen and you feel so lonely

Signing up for some Commie army

(Killed someone at thirteen) Endless psychology

(O.D'd on Sunny D) Endless psychology

Painted on your daddy's arm

Wasted in your mummy's car

You're sixteen and you feel so lonely

Signing up for some Commie army

And you've only got yourself to blame

Join the gallery, the kids from Shame

You're sixteen and you feel so lonely

Signing up for some Commie army

(Killed someone at thirteen) Endless psychology

(O.D'd on Sunny D) Endless psychology

(Endless psychology) Endless psychology

(Endless psychology) Endless psychology