I'm Against The Eighties - Denim

I’m against the '80s

I don’t care what you say

I’m against the '80s

You don’t listen to me anyway

Well I’m for the '70s

Oh and for the '90s too

Yeah I’m against the '80s

Cos girl look what they’ve done to you

I made a new sound and they put it underground

It was a thunderbolt crash they said it’s never going to last

In the '80s

Oh yeah '80s

We’re victims of the '80s

Yeah you and me girl

Deflated by the '80s

Getting caught up in its social whirl

You should have seen me in the '70s

I was different then

Oh but those times have gone

And they ain’t never coming back again

So I formed myself a band and I toured it 'round the land

I took a look around, there was nothing going down

In the '80s

Oh yeah '80s

Remember in the '70s

When we were at school

Hangin' out with the older boys

Bending all the little rules

Remember in '73

Yeah you and me

In the little wood

Leaning up against the tree

If the truth’s to be told then we were 12 years old

They say crime doesn’t pay but it surely did that day

In the '70s

Yeah yeah yeah

I’m against the '80s

Duran Duran

Fake make-up boys

The rum-runner clan

I knew you when you were at school

You were nothing then

And when you left the band

You were nothing again

You bought yourself a farm and you looked about as calm

As a man who’s going to freak 'cause an earthquake’s hit his street

In the '80s

Oh year '80s

That’s the '80s boy

Yeah yeah yeah

Well I’m against the '80s

Bands that couldn’t play

I’m against the '80s

Singers with nothing to say

You heard it on the radio

You saw it on the TV

You still went and bought it though

Ah it amazes me

You wouldn’t know style if it ran you up the aisle

You couldn’t spot a star if he come within a mile of the '80s

Oh yeah '80s

I’m looking forward to the '90s

Yeah I’ve got a new girl

We’re into Rave Signal III

'Cos we’re in love with the modern world

I’m sick of winkle picker kids

Mary Chain debris

I’ve just had enough of that

Nah it doesn’t interest me

I’ve made a new sound, this ain’t going underground

It’s a thunderbolt crash, concerns the future and the past

But not the '80s

No not the '80s

We’re talkin' 'bout the '80s

Oh that’s the '80s

That’s the '80s boy

Yeah yeah yeah