Ooh, yeah, oh oh oh
Suddenly

When vows get broken day by day
Like the windows of the old school in the playground's gone away
The old man searches dustbins to find his daily bread
He lives all day by nicotine and the whiskeys catches his head

Sensation is a new drug
Dead bodies on TV
Time is flying by
Have you got the time for me?

The daily papers dirty
That keeps the cold man warm
The sky is cracked wide open
And it can't keep out the storm

Suddenly
It didn't happen suddenly
Whoa, oh oh
Suddenly
It didn't happen suddenly
Whoa oh oh

No, no, don't take no more

Caught up in the cross-fire and political expense
A child crying eyes appear behind the garden fence
He's searching for the freedom he'd may never see
But the mother of two children needs a needle to be free

What's around the corner?
Why can't we see that far
Like the four teenage boys
Whose lives were stolen like a car

If the person's skin is colored
He knows the word "abuse"
The time is going by so fast
Ignorance is no excuse

Suddenly
It didn't happen suddenly
Whoa oh oh
Suddenly
It didn't happen suddenly
Whoa oh oh

No, no, don't take no more

No, no, no, it happens suddenly

Recreate the feeling

The killing of a peasant

The residue from this morning's atomic detonation
Is drifting in the direction of St. George

Suddenly
It didn't happen suddenly
Whoa oh oh
Suddenly
It didn't happen suddenly
Whoa oh oh