Chorus:
Four minutes left to go,
Is this the end?
That message on your stereo
Four minute warning
Everybody wants to know,
What should we do when a few short stories were (told)
Four minute warning

Verse 1:
Sashers international coffee,
"Yes the heart of the city is here," so he tells me
Sitting on his red leather sofa,
He's rolling another, "Man, I'll see you when I see ya"
Holly is said to be the next big thing,
In her high heel boots and her two inch earrings
Heart of glass,
A blonde sings in her ear, "You're a rock queen, honey, and we all hear you!"

Chorus:
Three minutes left to go,
Is this the end?
That message on your stereo
Four minute warning
Everybody wants to know,
What should we do when a few short stories were (told)
Four minute warning

Verse 2:
Lucy had a hard time with love,
But love recently chose the right time for Lucy
"Love him when you know it's the final time,"
She now holds time in her own mind
(Yeah)
Jimmy sings a local for Michael,
A Guinness in one hand and in the other a fable, able
I once asked, "Were you a lonely man?"
His reply was "No comment, I am what I am, what I am"

Chorus:
Two minutes left to go,
Is this the end?
That message on your stereo
Four minute warning
Everybody wants to know,
What should we do when a few short stories were (told)
Four minute warning

Cry, Laugh, Feel love, These high moments,
And these are your four minutes
(Counting down, four minutes' a sound)

The final story is one of me,
Who had four minutes left,
Has used up three
I think of you,
I think of me,
Then I think of nothing is the end You'll see

Chorus:
One minute left to go,
Is this the end?
That message on your stereo
Four minute warning
Everybody wants to know,
What should we do when a few short stories were (told)
Four minute warning
30 seconds left to go,
Is this the end?
That message on your stereo
Four minute warning
Everybody wants to know,
What should we do when

What would you do, What would you do, yeah
With a four minute warning, a four minute warning
I'm fading away, I'm fading away If anybody wants to know
I'm fading away, I'm fading away