Parallel Or 90 Degrees - Run In Rings lyrics

Running rings around an “a”, On an exercise book, English history washes over me, And I avoid my tutor's look, For one day I'll be his equal, Somehow I'll manage the exam To face the world with just statistics, A string of dates, my guideto Man. Running rings around the system, In my early post-school life, Treading the waters of authority, Firmly balancing the knife, Running rings back to stone circles, There were problems then, as now, Treading ground where the Normans fought, As near the bone as time allows. I discovered my peace in my sixties In my seventies my spirits flared, In my eighties I wrote “a”s with a circle And displayed them wherever I dared. Run in spirals back to square one, Caught up in English history, The string of dates and old statistics, Now has the company of me, My name is stored upon the disk drives, The Domesday books and machines, And I am not my tutor's equal, When he is pushing in the keys. I discovered my peace in my sixties In my seventies my spirits flared, In my eighties I wrote “a”s with a circle And displayed them wherever I dared. Give me love into my nineties; The menopause of good ol' rock and roll We'll run rings around “a”s, We'll draw CND signs, And fool ourselves we've won when we're old. In the twilight of the nineties we can wonder, Why we ever made such a fuss, We can sit back with smiles and watch our leaders, Running rings around us.