Our Bovine Public

Didn't think I'd have to choose

Didn't think I'd wear brown shoes

Didn't think that I'd ever have to read about this in the news

You're gonna have a go?

Well I don't want to know

I just thought that I should try and say hello to those who'd

Never exist without being generic

You're out to impress our bovine public

You'd never exist if you wasn't generic

You're out to impress our bovine public

I'll never forget how all this begun

And I will never regret a thing I have done

But you would never exist without us

So maybe I do...

Not have the time

Fair-weather friends of mine

A year's a long time

When you're doing nothing with your life

I heard you felt alert?

Well I'm hoping that it hurt

Cos we spent too much time doing groundwork

To be ground in to the dirt by those who'd

Never exist without being generic

You're out to impress our bovine public

You'd never exist if you wasn't generic

You're out to impress our bovine public

I'll never forget how all this begun

And I will never regret a thing I have done

But you would never exist without us

So maybe I do...

You say nothing

So you'll always mean nothing to me

And if what you say means nothing

Then what you say will always mean nothing to me

Didn't think I'd have the time

Fair-weather friends of mine

A year's a long time when you're doing nothing with your life

I heard you felt alert?

Well I'm hoping that it hurt

Cos we spent too much time doing groundwork

To be ground into the dirt by those who'd

Never exist without being generic

You're out to impress our bovine public

You'd never exist if you wasn't generic

You're out to impress our bovine public

I'll never forget how all this begun

And I will regret not one thing I've done

But you would never exist without us

So maybe I do...