Every sweet little lie   Ever whispered to you now rings true   No need to wake the sleeping dogs   When they’ll just turn on you      I’ll make my way instead   To the foot of your ivory tower   But no love shall I find there   Among the leaves and the dying flowers      What became of the love we knew?      Beat the swine black and blue   You and I and me and you   What became of the love we knew?   What became of the love we knew?      The Thames and the Mersey   The Tyne and the Wear and the Clyde   They spew slums like gravy   On the banks of the poisonous tide      They washed up a pale thin girl   Alone in her ivory tower   Scratching her skin with the thorns that grow   On the stems of the wild flowers      What became of the love we knew?      Beat the swine black and blue   You and I and me and you   What became of the love we knew?      What became of the working class?   Nike Air, Reebok, Addidas   Scratch cards, pinball’s ecstasy      Hooray for the 21st century      Living in a looking glass   As the beauty of life goes by   You’re going to be so old   You’re going to be so old   Your skins so cold      Hooray for the 21st Century