what's gonna happen now?

everybody's doin' what everybody's doin'

same old thing going down all the time

waiting for messiahs

waiting for the changes to show me the way to die

everybody's sayin' what everybody's sayin'

prime-time grapevine is still in control

eight years to '84

no wonder everybody's so afraid of growin' old

what's gonna happen now

what's gonna happen now

are we gonna carry on somehow

what's gonna happen now

everybody's tryin' what everybody's cryin'

new friends are old friends

it's just day two

it's tragic magic but it beats being nowhere

with nothin' left to do

everybody's doin' what everybody's doin'

prime-time grapevine is still in control

eight years to '84

no wonder everybody's so afraid of growin' old

what's gonna happen now

what's gonna happen now

are we gonna carry on somehow

what's gonna happen now