Suppers Off (early version)

I was born into a time when people walked on the moon
When transatlantic jets could make the trip in three hours
When planes could do vertical take-offs
And when rock festivals were free and you could take your own drinks
When bands wrote symphonies and tone poems
And when directors could make incredible documentary films about the world that we live in

I find myself part of a generation that lapped up wealth
That created Simon Cowell
And watered documentary television down to a kind of
"Through The Round Window" level
People my age play the Stock Market
And make selfish decisions in positions of power
Based loosely on the 'fact’ that they're "Just Like Us"
And we're "All In This Together"

Seems like the end of the world is coming
The Four Horsemen - The Red Gas Bill
Seems like the wolves at the door are humming songs to make us scared
And each month we try to help ourselves get by
With whatever’s left of the dosh
Don't believe them at the BBC
We cook the Books of Revelation
Have Seven Bowls of beans for tea

Seems like we'll never get back to Tesco's
From the discount frozen food store
Seems like the car's just a traitor
("Six six six" written on the door)
'Cause the M.O.T. is due in three weeks
And we'll be back again, in the shit
In the doldrums while the BBC
Tells all the world that we're finished
And all the world is forced to agree

[Chorus]
We try to change the world
But the world won’t take the hint
They go running back off to Genesis
And all the other bands are skint

When all those guys sat at Woodstock and the Isle Of Wight
I had this feeling that no one would ever get them to stand in line
To become part of the system that had
Supported war and bigotry for so long
Yet statistically there must have been people at those festivals
Who were even on that day planning careers
In Right Of Centre politics, the pursuit of power through money
The whole focus of what was being said on that day!

And of the thousands of people who watched Yes at QPR in ’76
Only a few hundred will turn up to watch their descendants on a whole tour
Yet if The Who were to plan some kind of comeback
They'd sell tickets for 90 quid to hundreds of thousands of people my age, all over the world
Who’d turn up in posh cars and four-by-fours
Because I am talking about my generation!

[Chorus x3]