Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers,
Nurses, queens and drones
Wish they’d leave my head tonight,
Let me rest my bones

(ziggedy zig zag just look at ’em ziggedy zag, hey hey)

A billion feet sound just like a billion drums
A bed is creaking as the messiah comes
The cars are crashing and the bacon is hacked
The coffin’s lowered and the lunches get packed
Still segregating ’cause we insects are too proud
Doesn’t matter what colour of cat you are there’s no dogs allowed

And the screaming sky won’t let me sleep
The stars are laughing at us,
As we crawl on and on across this antheap

War planes go over but no wages go ’round
A sign goes up to say hey we’re twin towned
The dough is rising but no bread will be baked
The fur is genuine but the orgasm’s faked
We’re spending millions to learn to speak porpoise,
When human loneliness is still a deafening noise

And the screaming sky won’t let me sleep
The stars are laughing at us,
As we crawl on and on across this antheap

Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers,
Nurses, queens and drones
Wish they’d leave my head tonight,
And let me rest my bones

And all the world’s babies are crying still
While all the police cars harmonize with power drills
As jets and kettles form a chord with screeching gulls
Accompanied by truncheons keeping time on human skulls

And the screaming sky won’t let me sleep
The stars are laughing at us,
As we crawl on and on past lovers who’ll leap
On and on past widows who’ll weep
On and on no more than skin deep
On and on across this antheap