(Thompson/Foreman) (Backgound vocals throughout the song: "People !") People, it's been a long time coming Many years spent hop skipping and a-jumping We cracked the golden egg and cooked our goose There's no excuse, accept my truce There's a tremor in the air of all hell breaking loose And people, you like it or not, you'll go unheard Like the unknown soldier who didn't say a word Rounded up like the blood beaten rest of the herd At the crossroads of life in itself seems absurd But I'll hopscotch, cartwheel across, pointing the finger of fate Oh, I'm in the mood to create People people People, it's been a short term marriage The overnight revolution caused so much damage Try to understand me as I'm not here too long And do carry on do carry on do carry on do carry on Oh oh People people People people