Life can be funny, sometimes a shame
Making the same mistakes again and again
It isn't easy being a man

For a woman it's harder
Try it in the Sudan
And when you're winning and when you've won

You turn around, your problems just begun
And when you're losing and when you've lost
You turn around, was it worth the cost


[chorus]
How did we make it

It's a mystery
We're getting better
that's news to me

Are we defeated
Defeated like hell
We may be losers

But you'll never tell
Nothing's gonna change
We don't give in

Nothing's gonna change
Take it on the chin
Nothing's gonna change

That silly grin
Nothing's gonna change
On the way to win


World wars are over, one and two
Others are raging still just like bamboo

The big bang is with us, here to stay
Unless the Martians come and take us away
My TV dinner shows a starving face

Making demands again outside my place
We strangle nature, the birds and trees,
Forgetting, we need the trees to breathe.


[chorus x2]


Nothing's gonna change
We don't give in
Nothing's gonna change

Take it on the chin
Nothing's gonna change
That silly grin

Nothing's gonna change
On the way to win


Nothing's gonna change
Nothing's gonna change
Nothing's gonna change

Nothing's gonna change
Nothing's gonna change [fade]