Lyric sheets: The Hyde Park refresher course '96
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Those of you who suffer from shot memories
Here are some useful pointers for you all:
Paisley is passe but granny glasses
May be necessary as you sprawl
Dimmed in middle age
Miles from the stage
Toilets? Well there have been some improvements
Gone the planks and trenches of before
Gone the cheery menace of Hell's Angels
And the idiot dancers are no more
But expect long queues
For the Portaloos
Quadrophenia's opera-style surtitles
Will ensure you comprehend each word
Veterans of the Sixties will ignore them
Rock's essential message should be blurred
Must be true because
Wasn't it in Oz?
Most of those on stage, you will have heard of
Maybe not Alanis Morissette
No, she's not a French-Canadian sports car
Or a type of foreign cigarette
Nor a small machine
Run on kerosene
Those who feel like breaking down the fences
Or are fit enough to scale a tree
Should remember; police now are much younger
And much faster than they used to be
Can't outrun a lawman
Over 44, man
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