Here today |
| Gone this afternoon |
| Another tune we almost remember |
| What's the story |
| Sex and drugs again |
| Business as usual |
| The clock's already ticking |
| La la la la |
| When he was young |
| Staring at the TV |
| He watched the fun happenin' to other people |
| Now they scream |
| As they run after him |
| Like a dream |
| Like Elvis and the Beatles |
A three minute song is all he wrote |
| He only did it for a joke |
| They played him on the radio |
| From Tokyo to Timbuktu |
| A three minute boy, ain't that somethin' |
| They named their children after him |
| The good times rolled beneath his feet |
| He skipped along the one-way street |
She's a pretty girl |
| She don't know how it started |
| She made a movie |
| He almost remembered |
| She measured up |
| They moved into a basement |
| We're so in love! |
| They giggled to the nation |
| La la la la |
Three minute millionaire they said |
| The numbers rattled round his head |
| They spun him three times round the globe |
| She waited patiently at home |
| And all the pretty girls wanted him |
| In places that he'd never been |
| Too much love will do you in |
| Forgive Forgive Forgive Forgive |
| Yeah Yeah Ooo |
Three minute kid is here again |
| Surrounded by three minute friends |
| He found someone to understand |
| To shock the world and hold his hand |
| No religion, no restraint |
| No direction, no complaints |
| No future and no way out |
| No time now to think about it |
| All the money's gone |
| He don't know what he spent it on |
| Girlfriends gone off with the Jag |
| Gone back to her mum and dad |
| He's curled up on the studio floor |
| He just can't do it anymore |
| The flashgun went off without warning |
| He'll read about it tomorrow morning |
She's goin' out with someone new |
| In this week at number two |
| Three minute boy ain't that somethin' |