Over cloudbursts I saw you
Pleasure waits at the pier
Smell the beer
Helter skelter over here
With some sugar and the birds and a cheer...
Woozy heads like a dodgem
Seagulls chat on the wall
Bowling ball
Stripey gent, he's ten foot tall
Wooden leg wins it all, what a day...
And the rollers, the coasters
They waltz round a lifetime
Belong in a different age
They're swingin' collectively
Spinning obsessively
Down at the desperately strange
This is a little confession
I've seen them around and I've heard that they're strange
We'll sing our shanties in the rain
We'll drink those bottles dry again
Hip hooray
We can jive away the day
And the wurlitzer will play anyway
And the rollers, the coasters
They waltz round a lifetime
Belong in a different age
They're swingin' collectively
Spinning obsessively
Down at the desperately strange
Carnival chemistry
Free from complexity
Down at the desperately strange