Middle Class Heroes

[Intro] Hello, what have we here? A young lady To what do I owe this pleasant surprise, my pretty one? How may I be of service this dark and wintry night? Ahh, I see. You wish me to look into the future Your future After GCSEs, A-levels, university After your first badly paid job in advertising Okay, my pretty Just cross my hand with plastic And I'll see what we can do Wait, the fog is lifting [Verse 1] I see Oriental paper globes Hanging like decomposing cocoons While exotic candles overload The musty air with their stale perfumes And I see lentils, beans, seaweed, and rice In jars on the windowsill And it ain't hardly enough to feed the mice Running behind the lines of allergy pills [Chorus] All these things will come to pass When heroes of the middle class Face up to their responsibilities [Verse 2] I see an Indian fertility god He's got 37 limbs to spare And tasteless tie-dyed tablecloths That double up as evening wear And I see naked bodies twist and turn On the futon of dreams fulfilled But their three year old kid seems unconcerned He'd rather swallow all those allergy pills [Chorus] All these things will come to pass When heroes of the middle class Face up to their responsibilities [Bridge] I see Unspeakable vulgarity Institutionalized mediocrity Infinity tragedy Rise up, little souls Join the doomed army Fight the good fight Wage the unwinnable war Elegance against ignorance Difference against indifference Wit against shit Oh my words fly up to heaven My thoughts remain below Words said without feeling Never to heaven go Never to heaven go Never to heaven go Never to heaven go [Chorus] All these things will come to pass When heroes of the middle class Face up, repent, and pay the price For accidentally creating life An oversight for which they must atone And sacrifice their own