Lyrics:

I was only asking
I didn't mean to make you so upset
Count to three and we'll try again
The colours of refreshment
I wonder do they have some dire effect
On your normal, laid back man
I see the empty platter
And I watch you growing tense
I know that there's no purchase
In appealing to your sense
Of equanimity
'Cos it's not there to see
It's all gone
The sum of our components
When studied through the microscopic lens
Of your eye
Adds up to none
And neither we're the experts
The one you always turn to
When your friends seek asylum
From your acid tongue
Forgive my being distant
But I know what you're about
You beg for my compassion
And I'd like to help you out
Really, but I regret
That there's nothing left
It's all gone
The pier I used to walk on
Where Peter Pan consorted with the drunks
And the leather boys
In playful mode
Stands severed from the seafront
Decaying in the sewage
And the junk
While its guardians
Build new roads
For Roxy, Rex and Regal
In every English town
No stay of execution
Can turn their fate around
Now that their time is through
And the world they knew
Is all gone