Everybody's doin' what everybody's doin'
Same old thing going down all the time
Waiting for messiahs, waiting for the changes to show me the way to die

Everybody's sayin' what everybody's sayin'
Prime-time grapevine is still in control
Eight years to '84, no wonder everybody's so afraid of growin' old

What's gonna happen now
What's gonna happen now
Are we gonna carry on somehow
What's gonna happen now

Everybody's tryin' what everybody's cryin'
New friends are old friends, it's just day two
It's tragic magic but it beats being nowhere
With nothin' left to do

Everybody's doin' what everybody's doin'
Prime-time grapevine is still in control
Eight years to '84, no wonder everybody's so afraid of growin' old

What's gonna happen now
What's gonna happen now
Are we gonna carry on somehow
What's gonna happen now