Wake up humans
you fucking idiots
Wake up to yourself
What the fuck are you doing now?
When you gonna stop
making them guns and bombs and drones and planes
and trucks and tanks and jeeps and boats
When you gonna stop
Marching around in your stupid uniforms
Marching around in your stupid uniforms
So do we need a spaceman to work it all out
Do we need an alien to calm it all down
Do we need a boogie man to follow us around
or do we just need a hairy old man on a cloud
Wake up humans
You fucking idiots
When I say humans I’m talking to the man
climb down off your horse
and take your hand right off that sword
leave the lions alone
When you gonna stop
catching those great big fish
in your super yacht
you fucking wally wankers
you fucking idiots
Do we need a spaceman to work it all out
Do we need an alien to calm it all down
Do we need a boogie man to follow us around
or do we just need a hairy old man on a cloud
a hairy old man with a beard who lives on a cloud
Would it be a boring world
if we were to be sensible and nice
do we need to be nasty to stay entertained
and think of interesting new things
So do we need a spaceman to work it all out
Do we need an alien to calm it all down
Do we need a boogie man to follow us around
or do we just need a hairy old man on a cloud
When you gonna give up your nationalism
When you gonna give up your patriotism
When you gonna give up your religiosity
When you gonna give up
your ridiculous ancestral belief
a hairy old man with a beard who lives on a cloud
do we need a hairy old man who lives on a cloud
a hairy old man with a beard who lives on a cloud
Songwriter-Peter O’Doherty