The clowns and the madmen are led away,

Kicking and screaming, kicking and screaming.

The brand-new Bentley is brought out to play,

Factory-gleaming, factory gleaming.

The streets are swept free of the dust and muck,

Spit-clean and polished, spit-clean and polished;

Around lies the city’s ardour and luck,

Smashed and abolished, smashed and abolished.

 

As simpering rules are stamped and applied

In terrified dreams, in terrified dreams,

Like cheap anaesthetic, fun is supplied

In glassy-eyed streams, in glassy-eyed streams.

Conclusions emerge, impurities gone,

In sanitised space, in sanitised space;

The young and ambitious all daily don

An unblemished face, an unblemished face.