Four minutes left to go, is this the end?   That message on your stereo, four minute warning   Everybody wants to know what should we do than   A few short stories, a four minute warning      Sasha stands in his yellow cafe   Yes, the heart of the city is here, so he tells me   Sitting on his red leather sofa, he's rolling another   Man, I'll see you when I see you      Polly is set to be the next big thing   In her high heeled boots and her two inch earrings   Heart of glass, Blondie, sings in her ear   You're a rock queen honey and we all hear you      Three minutes left to go, is this the end?   That message on your stereo, four minute warning   Everybody wants to know what should we do than   A few short stories, a four minute warning      Lucy had a hard time with love   But love recently chose the right time for Lucy   Loving when you know, it's the final time   She now holds time in her own mind      Yeah, Jimmies is the local for Michael   A Guinness in one hand, in the other a fable   Able, I once asked, are you a lonely man?   His reply was non-committal, I am what I am, man      Two minutes left to go, is this the end?   That message on your stereo, four minute warning   Everybody wants to know what should we do than   The official story's a four minute warning      Cry, laugh, feel love, peace, panic   These are your four minutes   I'm counting it down, four minutes of sound   It's always a rush when you're around      The final story is one of me, who with four minutes left   Has used up three, I think of you, I think of me   Then I think of nothing, it's the end you see   Yeah      One minute left to go, is this the end?   That message on your stereo, four minute warning   Everybody wants to know what should we do than   A few short stories, a four minute warning      Thirty seconds left to go, is this the end?   That message on your stereo, four minute warning   Everybody wants to know what should we do than      What would you do?   What would you do? Yeah   With a four minute warning, a four minute warning      I'm fading away, I'm fading away, if anybody wants to know   I'm fading away, I'm fading away, there's only seconds to go