I Spy

I spy a boy

I spy a girl

I spy the worst place

In the world

In the whole wide world

No, you didn't do bad

You made it out

I'm still stuck here

Oh, but I'll get out

Oh yeah, I'll get out

Can't you see a giant walks among you

Seeing through your petty lives?

Do you think I do these things for real?

I do these things just so I survive

And you know I will survive

It may look to the untrained eye

I'm sittin' on my arse all day

I'm bidin' time until I take you on

My Lords and Ladies, I will prevail

I cannot fail

'Cause I spy

Oh, I've got your number, taken notes

I know the ways your minds work, I've studied

Oh, and your minds are just the same as mine

Except that you are clever swines

You never let your masks slip

You never admit to it

You're never hurried

Oh no, no, no

And every night I hone my plan

How I will get my satisfaction

How I will blow your paradise away

Away, away

'Cause I spy

It's just like in the old days

I used to compose my own critical notices in my head

"The crowd gasp at Cocker's masterful control of the bicycle

Skillfully avoiding the dog-turd outside the corner shop"

Imagining a blue plaque

Above the place I first ever touched a girl's chest

But hold on

You've got to wait for the best

You see, you should take me seriously

Very seriously, indeed

'Cause I've been sleeping with your wife for the past sixteen weeks

Smoking your cigarettes, drinkin' your brandy

Messin' up the bed that you chose together

And in all that time

I just wanted you to come home unexpectedly one afternoon

And catch us at it in the front room

You see, I spy for a living

And I specialise in revenge

On takin' the things I know will cause you pain

I can't help it, I was dragged up

My favourite parks are car parks

Grass is something you smoke

Birds are something you shag

Take your "Year in Provence" and shove it up your ass

Your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on, yeah

With roach burns in designer dresses

Skin stretched tight over high cheek-bones

And thousands of tiny dryness-lines

Beatin' a path

Beatin' a path to the corners of your eyes

And every night I hatch my plan

It's not a case of woman v. man

It's more a case of haves against havent's

And I just happen to have got what you need

Just exactly what you need, yeah

La-la, la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

In the midnight hour

La-la, la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

I will come to you

I will come to you

I will take you from this sickness

Dinner-parties and champagne

I'll hold your body and make it sing again

Come on, sing again

Let's sing again, oh yeah

'Cause I spy

Yes, I spy

I spy a boy

And I spy a girl

I spy a chance

To change the world

To change your world