Lyric Chairman Mao s Vacation

They painted us up
and shouted us down
they wanted us to be
just a face in the crowd
and all the time they never saw
the people we are
in a world of fast cars

every time you pass
you try not to laugh at me
you don t want to love me out sympathy
I guess that you admire me
for my humility
in a world of fast cars

We don t hear the jokes
that eveyone else hears
when they walk behind us
on our holidays
we just don t fit into deckchairs
and take walks along the pier

Even the lonely people
deal us out
think I ll walk down town
and sit on a roundabout
and drivers will keep driving
cos they re too polite to shout
"hey look at that fat boy"
in a world of fast cars