I went out drinking with Thomas Paine   He said that all revolutions are not the same   They're as different as the cultures that give them birth   For no one idea can solve every problem on earth      So don't expect it all to happen   In some prophesied political fashion   For people are different and so are nations   You can borrow ideas but you can't borrow situations      In Leningrad the people say   Perestroika can be explained this way   The people who told us that two and two is ten   Are now trying to tell us that two and two is five      We're living in a North Sea Bubble   We're trying to spend our way out of trouble   You keep buying these things but you don't need them   But as long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom      We're living in a North Sea Bubble   We're trying to spend our way out of trouble   My American friends don't know what to do   But they'll wait a long time for a Beverley Hills coup      We're living in a North Sea Bubble   We're trying to spend our way out of trouble   War, what is it good for?   It's good for business