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 ba!@&(t
"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'