Pre>d g   It's gone beyond a joke, it's gone beyond a laughing matter   D g   We had a flag out in the wind, now it's reduced to just a tatter   C c c   I get the feeling it's all getting out of control   C d g c   I want to be back where we can feel with our real senses ooooh   C d g c   I want to be back where we had every day defences      Chorus   C d c   What did we have? ooooh what did we do?    C d c   What kind of love could not pull us through?    G d a   It was another kind of world and nobody spoke, it was...      Getting beyond a joke, getting beyond a laughing matter, matter, matter   I walked out onto the street, the buildings, the people   Were reduced to tatters, tatters, tatters   It's almost like I am being crushed from inside   I want to touch your hand but it feels a skeleton's grasp ooooh   I want to be in command but I'm just a speck in a swell in a rasp      What did we have? ooooh what did we do?    What kind of love could not pull us through?    It was another kind of time and nobody spoke, it was      Verse   Getting beyond a joke, it was getting beyond a joke,   It was getting beyond a joke      Instrumental completes verse and chorus      Verse   It's getting beyond a joke, it's getting way beyond a laughing matter (x3)   Hands slip, feet trip, lips twist in a grimace every sound's a clatter (x3)   Paper and sky are torn in a terrible way   Everything's been reborn into a world that isn't quite dying   All of the clothes we've worn are too soaking wet to be dry in      Chorus 2   What did we have? ooooh what did we do?    What kind of love could not pull us through?    It was another kind of time and nobody spoke, it was...      Verse   Getting beyond a joke, it was getting beyond a joke, (repeat and fade)   /pre>