Here today

Gone this afternoon

Another tune we almost remember

What's the story

Sex and drugs again

Business as usual

The clock's already ticking

La la la la

When he was young

Staring at the TV

He watched the fun happenin' to other people

Now they scream

As they run after him

Like a dream

Like Elvis and the Beatles



A three minute song is all he wrote

He only did it for a joke

They played him on the radio

From Tokyo to Timbuktu

A three minute boy, ain't that somethin'

They named their children after him

The good times rolled beneath his feet

He skipped along the one-way street



She's a pretty girl

She don't know how it started

She made a movie

He almost remembered

She measured up

They moved into a basement

"We're so in love!"

They giggled to the nation

La la la la



Three minute millionaire they said

The numbers rattled round his head

They spun him three times round the globe

She waited patiently at home

And all the pretty girls wanted him

In places that he'd never been

Too much love will do you in

Forgive Forgive Forgive Forgive

Yeah Yeah Ooo



Three minute kid is here again

Surrounded by three minute friends

He found someone to understand

To shock the world and hold his hand

No religion, no restraint

No direction, no complaints

No future and no way out

No time now to think about it

All the money's gone

He don't know what he spent it on

Girlfriends gone off with the Jag

Gone back to her mum and dad

He's curled up on the studio floor

He just can't do it anymore

The flashgun went off without warning

He'll read about it tomorrow morning



She's goin' out with someone new

In this week at number two

Three minute boy ain't that somethin