Your momma and daddy worry 'bout your whereabouts They know you never showed at school They didn't know that you were blind over my house suburban Liverpool. Ordinary cirumstance, english cla** and math All add up to nonsense, logic makes you laugh Oh my, what's that you say? We can't hear you No school today "Thousands of teenagers; walking, rolling, twisting smoking, drinking, cursing, carousing" A telephone is shooting off it's mouth somewhere I'm pretty sure they're calling for you But now you're sunk down in a great big easy chair hearing your guitar sing to you Love to see the colours swim and disappear I thought you were beautiful laughing in my beer Oh my, what's that you say? We can't hear you No school today Oh my, what's that you say? We can't hear you No school today "Thousands of teenagers, "thousands of teenagers "thousands of teenagers.