Another feature film about an air-line disaster 
Another news item and another newscaster 
But there's worst to come at the arrival gate 
There's a crack on board and it's running in freight 

Well the fruit of the poppy take up all your time 
Getting high by the hands of re-organised crime 
Put the put the squeeze on the Colombian leaf
Make the brother a liar and a sister a thief 

It's nothing like velvet, nothing like velvet 
It's nothing like velvet but it starts off smooth 
Nothing like velvet and a rut's not a groove 
Its nothing like velvet when it's pound on pound 
Nothing like velvet when you're underground 

They're shooting up Glasgow, shooting up Leeds 
There was never this peril with the stems and seeds 
And the hip and the right have got nothing to say 
Except, "It's out of control and it's headed your way" 

It's nothing like velvet, nothing like velvet 

And I loved Charlie Parker but you know he did us harm 
Every time he left to pour that inspiration in his arm 

It's nothing like velvet but it starts off smooth 
Nothing like velvet and a rut's not a groove 
Its nothing like velvet when it's pound on pound 
Nothing like velvet when you're underground