It's a God-awful small affair   To the girl with the mousy hair   But her mother is yelling "No"   And her daddy has told her to go      But her friend is nowhere to be seen   As she walks through her sunken dream   To the seat with the clearest view   And she's hooked to the silver screen      But the film is a saddening bore   For she's lived it ten times or more   She could spit in the eyes of fools   As they ask her to focus on   Sailors fighting in the dance hall   Oh man, look at those cavemen go   It's the freakiest show      Take a look at the lawman   Beating up the wrong guy   Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know      He's in the best selling show   Is there life on Mars?      It's on America's tortured brow   Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow   Now the workers have struck for fame   'Cause Lennon's on sale again      See the mice in their million hordes   From Ibeza to the Norfolk Broads   Rule Britannia is out of bounds   To my mother, my dog and clowns      But the film is a saddening bore   'Cause I wrote it ten times before   It's about to be writ again   As I ask you to focus on      Sailors fighting in the dance hall   Oh man, look at those cavemen go   It's the freakiest show      Take a look at the lawman   Beating up the wrong guy   Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know      He's in the best selling show   Is there life on Mars?   Is there life on Mars?