Closing in on empty spaces   Winners laugh too soon   A paper world with paper faces   Beneath a paper moon      Well, there's a man, a real pace setter   Coming after me   And after him there's someone better   And after him there's me      Well, he'll offer you a cigarette   He'll offer you a light   Oh but he hasn't finished with you yet   On another long knife night      Look behind you   There's the man you're chasing   Look behind you   Let's go human racing   Human racing   Oh let's go racing now      Open arms and open purses   Open season's here   Well, they fill your head   With clever verses   And then they disappear      Silent vows in secret places   They'll get you somehow   'Cause you never win   With the human races   So who's the loser now?      Look behind you   There's the man you're chasing   Look behind you   Let's go human racing   Human racing   Let's go racing now      Oh   Around and around we go   Human racing now, oh   After him, after him   Around and around we go   Let's go racing now