I love the simple, quiet life
Free from hunger, pain and strife
A cosy cul-de-sac, a picture pretty wife
Babies bouncing round our dancing feet
Smiling neighbours in a friendly street
I see our garden bloom – the food is fresh and sweet
Come around we’d love to have you stay
No finer place to start a brand new day
It doesn’t matter what you have to say
We’re only a phone call away
I sometimes think about the life we knew
Caught in the rat-race, in the human zoo
The crazy mad-mouse we rode from bust to boom
Now as we lie inside our bubbling spa
I think of how our life was once so hard
The old man’s money didn’t seem to go that far
We work at home now in our tax free rooms
Craft work on electronic loom
And we’d really love to see you soon
Because it sometimes seems like we’re living in a cartoon
I remember all our well laid plans
A moral vision merged with healthy glands
A little piece of earth where we could make our stand
Now every day I work away inside
I send my labour out through space and time
I feel like some new man, but I don’t know what kind
As I walk around the neighbourhood
I shake a hand or two I smile and nod
We could make friends in fact I know we would
If there was just one person I felt that I understood
In the middle of a golden dream
I catch the echo of a timeless scream
I haven’t got the time to wonder what it means
As I eat another wholesome meal
I find I’m thinking of some high ideal
Caught between the perfect souffle and the way that I feel
You’re all welcome to our happy home
We’ve kept a space to rest your weary bones
Just turn left after the twilight zone
We’re waiting for your call heaven knows
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