With a calm and strategic no   I'm back and I'm solo   This is the Oliver Twist manifesto      For the age I was born, for Victoriana   This is Oliver Twist pissing over Britannia   50 years of Tin Pan Alley   I learned good from a king thief mentor   200 years of teenage anarchy   Papist threats and no popery   Revenge ???? the cold in Soho   This is the Oliver Twist manifesto   Totality for the kids   Oliver Twist      This is Oliver Twist      There was this gang who I used to run with   Swindlers, knaves, urchins scum, spivs   Looking good comes in handy   When you're dipping from the pockets of a dandy   And there's murder in the air at the Connelli room   And there's treason in the air at the Groucho   If there's a TV pop in the Soho house   It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to tell you   That it's Oliver Twist   Doing it for the kids      Keep the boy on gruel   There's a young British artist in the room   This is Oliver Twist      What if all of the village idiots   And all the raspberry ripples   Are just putting it on   And they're the brightest of all of the cripples?   Oliver Twist I cartarista   Disappear into a pea souper   Swooping down like the Hun   Over the gas-lit streets of London   Into a pea souper   A Cartarista      Unto you my children I bestow this gift   It's a ballroom blitz   This is Oliver Twist   This is Oliver Twist      A cartarista   Into a pea souper   Totality for the kids   Oliver Twist   Swooping down like the Hun   Swooping down over Soho   It's the Oliver Twist manifesto   Oliver twist