Please pay attention to hardworking drummers,
Keeping the time and keeping the numbers,
Keeping the time, the hardworking drummers
Keeping the tension, the hardworking drummers.

Clear a path, the Russians are coming, not quite as innocent as it first seemed.
Please stand back, the Russians are coming here, quickly.

Somebody told me the Russians are coming,
I overheard that the Russians are coming,
Word on the street is the Russians are coming,
Word on the grapevine’s the Russians are coming!

Someone spied them on the horizon, peeking from behind net curtains, ironed.
Maybe they’re tiny, but for some reason they’re getting bigger.

Oh fuck did you hear that?
I wouldn’t go near it,
I wouldn’t touch it with yours.

Guess it’s depression, maybe I’m lazy, stay in bed all day, don’t want to talk to people I don’t consider equal, that leaves just no one.
In reply to your bumbling accusation that shocked the nation, not worth the ink or so called paper you print on.
Dear Harold Pinter, this is the winter, you better close the window if you want to keep the cold out.
I think it’s best if you kept the cold out.
That’s enough now narcissistic narrator, if there’s the time we’ll get back to you later.
Listen, instead, to hardworking drumming, telling you how about the Russians are coming!

Hungry an’ rumbling, tumbling drummers,
Bastardised, Francophile, Cherry Pie drummers,
Everywhere, infinite, bottomless drummers.
Underpaid, 5-a-day, gamma ray drummers,
Trip-o-lit, syllable, adjective drummers,
Communist, mixer-wrist, humbling drummers,
Mumbling, bumbling, stumbling drummers,
Accurate, practically classical drummers.
Militant, canni-bal-igerent drummers,
Rideable, crashable, flam-able drummers.
Average 9-5 overtime drummers,
Carbonate, crystallised, oxidised drummers,
Criminal, artisan, exquisite drummers,
Perfectly pendulous metronome drummers
Elegant, arrogant, flamboyant drummers
Eloquent, renegade, motionless drummers,
Devious and diabolical drummers,
Working class, terrified, bleary-eyed drummers.
Listen to lyrical, miracle drummers,
Starved of attention, these idiot savants.
Please pay respect to the working class drummers,
Hard-working, smiling, broken back drummers,
99, fight or flight, nighty-night drummers.
Give the respect that’s deserved by the drummers,
Competent, talented, wonderful drummers,
Aubergine, tomato, cucumber drummers,
Herbivore, carnivore, gimme-more drummers.
Herbivore, carnivore, gimme-more drummers.
Herbivore, carnivore, gimme-more drummers.
Herbivore, carnivore, gimme-more drummers.
Herbivore, carnivore, gimme-more drummers.
Herbivore, carnivore, gimme-more drummers.