Before the War - Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

of all the bars and all the pubs

And all the late night drinking clubs

You had to walk into them all

You’ve been drinking to forget

You need to keep your thinking set

On what you did before the war

Before the bugler changed his tune

When everything was Mills and Boon

And lovers kissed beneath the stars

Now they’ve flattened all the flats

It’s time to batten down the hatch

With another whisky from the bar

And drink yourself under the table

Terrestrial TV and cable

The wireless and the Internet

Remind us what we’re drinking to forget

It’s something more than just the guilt

You can’t be sure, you must have killed

But you really can’t be sure

When progress moves so fast

It leaves us in the past

With platform shoes and dinosaurs

Close your eyes and count to ten

Forget the whys and wheres

And when you feel sober

It still isn’t over

There’s more

Sell your house

And change your name

Because you’ll never be the same man

That you were

Before the war