Times Changed

Everybody knows

That times changed

Times changed

Some boys look older

And the young ones smile in jest

Lads born to be the chosen one

While the wise man sings in the cuckoo's nest

I walked the West End late last night

After seein' an old friend of mine

We talked about this place and the way it was

When a bloke could get a break before these

Times changed

These times changed

These times changed

I heard a DJ spin in Brixton

Some of that fresh massive attack

Here in the house of mass consumption

Where the ecstasy goes fast

On the screen in this month's fashion

Lots of leather and a tattooed breast

Better this than some guru

Who's trying to teach you how to live

When you know

Times changed

Times changed

You know times changed

Times changed

I saw a bastard slap his girl around

I said man have you gone mad

What's gotten into you

That's makin' you so bad

You think love is anything when you

Can't get work

You think life is on TV

Then he turned up some of that speed metal

And said this is what I think

I rode the East End early yesterday

I was hit by the way it's changed

From the days of Krays in my teenage years

When we all knew our place

Now the welfare state is a state of wealth

For some the hope is gone

And a cardboard box in Westminster is hard to

Call a home but you know

Times changed

Times changed

Times changed

Times changed

Everybody knows

Everybody knows

They know that times changed…