Definite Maybe - The Kinks

Got a letter through the post that says I don’t exist

Apparently the new computer thinks I won’t be missed

We need more facts, perhaps you would find out and forward them

There’s no proof or trace or date or place or where or when

Central Information’s got no news today (today)

Is there a change in my position?

No decision, no decision

All I ever get is a definite maybe

Head office thinks I’m dead

But I’m not even ill

How do I get attention

Tell me who I have to kill

Is there a change in my condition?

Not today

The answer comes with repetition

No decision, no decision

'Round and 'round the circle goes

Stood in line but the counter was closed

And when I ask who is responsible

Nobody knows, «Try one of those.»

All I want is a yes or a no

(All he wants is a yes or a no)

But all I ever get is a definite maybe

Tried to make my life a misery

But they don’t want to know

They don’t want to know

They don’t want to know

And all I ever get is a definite maybe

No decision, no decision

Surely there must be a way to open all the doors

And wade through all the petty bureaucratic little laws

Frustration everywhere I turn, I just get more and more

Everyone’s got problems and they’ve heard all mine before

Oh, I’m tired of making endless calls

(Somebody help this poor man)

Banging my head against the wall

I walk along an endless corridor

Then I knock on the door, then I realize

That I’ve been there before

No one here can hear my case

So all I ever get is a definite maybe

When they say, «no news today, get back in the queue,»

What can I do?

What can I do?

What can I do?

No decision, no decision

No decision

All I ever get (no decision) is a definite maybe (no decision)