My tea turned seven shades darker

as I sit 'n' write these words

and London's gettin' paler

in my theatre of the absurd.

You figured for an evening

and you made it all worthwile.

It's seldom people have a job

and even rarer that I smile.



Play me some, play me some,

play me Brixton power.

Teach your children to be them

and never ever ours.

Play me some, play me some,

play me Brixton power.

Someone took the park away

but they left a lonely flower.



And if your songs be classics,

throw them to the hurd.

Truth is where they came from

and not this theatre of the absurd.

Some say you wanted to play for me

but it's only what you've heard

that made you want to capture me

in your theatre of the absurd.

It was not me, I said myself

and you must do so, too.

I hope you have the strength to stay

when I'll be watchin' you.



So baby,

play me some, play me some,

play me Brixton power.

Teach your children to be them

and never ever ours.

Play me some, play me some,

play me Brixton power.

Someone took the park away

but they left a lonely flower.



Oh when I got here back home tonight

something within me stirred.

Oh it must have been a different kind of play

that touched my theatre of the absurd.

Now I'll be on my way alone

But an interesting thing occurred

See nobody ever shared too much

in my theatre of the absurd.

And there I was back in London,

thought about history.

It was just like being in school again

but I felt something movin' in me.

Hearin' just a bit of the future,

oh it's comin' and it's still blurred

and that's the only thing worth living f