Three Minute Boy (Live)

Here today

Gone this afternoon

Another tune we almost remember

What's the story?

Sex and drugs again

Business as usual

The clock's already runnin'

Everybody

When he was young

Staring at the T.V.

He watched the fun happenin' to other people

Now they scream

As they run after him

It's like a dream

Like Elvis and the Beatles

Three minute song is all he wrote

He only did it for a joke

They played him on the radio

From Tokyo to Timbuktu

A three minute kid, ain't that somethin'?

They named their children after him

The good times rolled beneath his feet

He skipped along the one-way street

She's a pretty girl

She don't know how it started

She made a movie

He almost remembered

She measured up

They moved into a basement

"We're so in love"

They giggled to the nation

All together

Hey

"A three minute millionaire," they said

The numbers rattled round his head

They spun him three times round the globe

She waited patiently at home

And all the pretty girls wanted him

In places that he'd never been

But too much love will do you in

Forgive, forgive, forgive, forgive

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Three minute kid is here again

Surrounded by three minute friends

He found someone to understand

To shock the world and hold his hand

No religion, no restraint

No direction, no complaints

No future and no way out

No time now to think about it

All the money's gone

He don't know what he spent it on

His girlfriend's gone off with a Jag

She gone back to her mom and dad

He's curled up on the studio floor

He just can't do it anymore

The flashgun went off without warnin'

Read about it tomorrow mornin'

Yeah, yeah, everybody

Come on, come on

Single man

Woo-hoo-hoo

She's goin' out with someone new

Yeah, he's in this week at number two

Huh, three minute kid, ain't that somethin'?

Ain't that somethin'?

Ain't that somethin'?

Sing very quietly

Woo

Everybody, quietly

Yeah

Oh, yeah

Ooh, ooh

One more time