everybody s talking and no one says a word everybody s making love and no one really cares there s nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs always something happening and nothing going on there s always something cooking and nothing in the pot they re starving back in china so finish what you got nobody told me there d be days like these nobody told me there d be days like these nobody told me there d be days like these strange days indeed strange days indeed everybody s runnin and no one makes a move everyone s a winner and nothing left to lose there s a little yellow idol to the north of katmandu everybody s flying and no one leaves the ground everybody s crying and no one makes a sound there s a place for us in the movies you just gotta lay around nobody told me there d be days like these nobody told me there d be days like these nobody told me there d be days like these strange days indeed most peculiar mama everybody s smoking and no one s getting high everybody s flying and never touch the sky there s a ufo over new york and i ain t too surprised nobody told me there d be days like these nobody told me there d be days like these nobody told me there d be days like these strange days indeed most peculiar mama