I thought that you were joking / When you said "I want to see you 

To discuss your contribution / To the future of our nation's heart and soul 

Six o'clock, my place, Whitehall" / Well I arrived just after seven 

But you said "It doesn't matter" / "I understand your situation 

And your image, and I'm flattered / Oh and I'd just like to tell you 

That I love all of your albums / Could you sign this for my daughter? 

She's in hospital, her name is Miriam / Now get down to the gist: 

Do you want a line of this? / Are you a (sniff) / socialist?" 

"Doin' fine, yeah! / Buzzin' all the time / Just one hit / And I feel great 

And I support / The welfare state / Oh, you must be socialist 

'Cos you're always off out on the piss / In your private member's bar 

Oh yes you are / Yer superstar / Well you sing about common people 

And the mis-shapes and the misfits / So can you bring them to my party 

And get them all to sniff this? / And all I'm really saying 

Is come on and rock the vote for me / All I'm really saying 

Is come on roll up that note for me / The gist of all of this is 

Do you want hits or d'you want misses? / Are you a socialist, yeah 

Socialist, yeah / Socialist, yeah / Oh yeah" 

"Yeah, you can be just what you want to be

Just as long as you don't try to compete with me 

And we've waited such a long time 

For the chance to help our own kind, so now 

Please come on and tow the party line / Oh you owe it to yourself 

Don't think of anybody else / And we promise we won't tell 

Oh we won't tell, and we won't sell" / No we won't / No we won't 

No we won't