Dream boat coming in Nice feeling Nice feeling Nice feeling For a while As honeymoons go I guess you'd call it a fairly long time You get to the top and just stroll along Here comes the nation's favourite son, oh it's great To be number one For a while But still it's ok and the beat goes on And she's dancing barefoot under a moonlit sun There's dirt in her eye And a shimmery gleam Maybe things have gone Just a little mainstream, but still it's ok And the beat goes on I hooked up with Mr. Chang And I bought the hype And I found myself in the West End Virtually every night Locked away with this fella Whose name I don't recall But he came on like some kind of chat-show host, still we Woofed it down like we didn't care And he looked at me with eyes that weren't really there And I was talking to this girl, she had long red hair She said, oh look, there's that thingy And there's that, that whatsisname? Not that I was really bothered 'Cause all I really wanted was just more cocaine And I was on the way up from the underground And I spat on the people who were on the way down And my heart went boom fell off of my sleeve And my sleeve was in the gutter and it was made out of gold And it all we pouring down this Big black hole But still it's ok and the beat goes on And she's dancing barefoot under a moonlit sun Yeah there's dirt in her eye, and a shimmery gleam Maybe things have gone Just a little mainstream, but still it's ok And the beat goes on For a couple of years it all seemed to fall apart And I found myself drinking cider in Vauxhall Park With my old mate Tony and some of his freakish alcoholic friends But I saw something more sincere in them And I shaved my legs and I grew a beard And we celebrated three hundred and sixty five days a year But it wasn't a million miles away from where I'd been Just a different pair of shoes but the same old skin Yeah great for a while but it never lasts And my stomach burst open like a broken glass And I was to awake in this hospital bed With a tube in my nose And an aching bald head And there was this beautiful nurse And I, And I fell in love She told me that here name was Veronica And when I got well we met up for a drink And we are 3 years later Me, Veronica and the kids Oh it's funny how things just rollercoaster around When you're on the way up You could be crashing down But you never really know 'cause it could be the other way around But still it's ok and the beat goes on And she's dancing barefoot under a moonlit sun There's dirt in her eyes and a shimmery gleam Maybe things have gone just a little mainstream But still it's ok And the beat goes on Dream boat coming in (Do-do-do) Nice feeling (Do-do-do) Nice feeling (Do-do-do) Nice feeling (Do-do-do) Nice feeling For a while