Cabbage everywhere, big potatoes, and now and then A piece of meat 50.000 people (munch) away on what they can afford You better come in time or else you're going short
Send the children out 'cause it's time for daddy's After dinner nap And this is Sunday afternoon so mother comes to him Don't you make a noise the wall's are paper-thin Father used to be much wilder in the old days But now there are the neighbours they take it As a radio play
Satellite town, you used to be home
Old man sit on benches near the lake waitin for The sun to shine Looking at the gap between two houses 18 stories high Sun will show up there when it's half past five
Playground is deserted all the children are playing By the garbage-cans They lick around the dead beer bottles daddy killed last night
Some are playing mother, father, and child You and me the parents and he will do the baby We better tie him up 'cause he won't like that maybe
Satellite town, you used to be home
Silverbirds are hanging on the corner waiting for The night to come Drinking more than they can hold beating up each other I'm gonna smash your face if you won't be my brother The later they have business in the shopping center A place that in the night you better not enter