Tell me what's happening to this world   I've just seen pictures of a girl   Lying half-naked in a stream   She was so fall of life   Yet in one moment killed by a knife   Will somebody tell me   What's it all supposed to mean?      Sign on the door says go away   Sign on the grass says you will pay   Dearly if on it you are seen   Ask your neighbour's the time They'll close their curtains pull down the blinds   Will somebody tell me   What's it all supposed to mean?      You can say what you like   About a bike it does ring a bell at least   Why provide cars that break every law we make   Not the least of which is the speed they can exceed   You can say what you like   About goodbyes   They boost tissue sales at least   I don't know anyone whose love has gone   Who does not require a multitude of these      A clip round the ear it must be said   Never hurt anyone instead   Taught you a lesson you'd not seen   And yet do that today   You could so easily be put in jail   Will somebody tell me   What's it all supposed to mean?