Opportunity - Elvis Costello, The Attractions

Born in the middle of the second big baby boom

Those noisy boys just might have spoken up too soon

Now I’m looking for a little girl, I wonder where she’s gone

Big money for families having more than one

Opportunity, opportunity, this is your big opportunity

To shop around, follow you without a sound

What ever you do now, don’t turn around

Don’t turn around

What ever happened to the pride of the nation

They say they’re waiting till they break formation

She was sittin' pretty on a velvet cushion

But her bedroom eyes were like a button, she was pushing

She said when they get to dover they’ll be taking over

Said I’ll come to her defense then she’ll pull me over

Opportunity, opportunity, this is your big opportunity

To shop around, follow you without a sound

What ever you do now, don’t turn around

Don’t turn around

I’m in the foxhole, I’m down in the trench

I’d be a hero but I can’t stand the stench

The fitness institute is for the general motor man

The holo house of beauty wouldn’t stand a chance with them

The chairman of this board’ll use a compliment collector

I’d like to be his funeral director

Opportunity, opportunity, this is your big opportunity

To shop around, follow you without a sound

What ever you do now, don’t turn around

Don’t turn around

Please, don’t turn around

Please, don’t turn around

Don’t turn around

Don’t turn around

Don’t turn around