Note:

The line between square brackets is in the CD-booklet but not song. The indented italics lines are spoken, most likely by Ronald Reagan (cf. the "Ronnie" in the preceeding line) as president of the USA, and not given in the CD-booklet.

It was a plastic age with plastic tears

A total addiction to the wonder years

I'm a believer was where it's at

He's singing oh Lola lady lay lady lay

She's fixing a hole down on Blue Jay Way

American Pie on your Tupperware

He paints an Andy-Pandy Campbell's tins

Boys in the jungle on your TV screen

In tricky dicky's love machine

We'll take an easy ride and have some fun

On Dylan's highway 61

In California dreaming sun



That was when I loved you

I loved you, I loved you, I loved you



They were the living years of stainless steel

Praying for a time in a fortune wheel

Smooth operator was where it's at

So welcome all of you to the pleasure dome

Of taking the look from the homeless zone

With digital aids in your telephone



Another day in paradise is nice

From Ronnie's recession's nice advice

[Coz UB40's ice is vice]



We suffer from the longest

and one of the most sustained

inflations in our national history.

So don't you let the sun go down on me

Coz I wanna break free from your MTV

To virtual reality



That was when I loved you

I loved you, I loved you, I loved you

I loved you, I loved you



That was when I loved you

I loved you, I loved you, I loved you

I loved you, I loved you, ... (repeated several times)



[Choir on the background:]

From the shadow of the past

I never dreamd that it would last

You gave me joy you gave me tears

And took away the wonder years