[Verse 1]
Two lightning bolts were delivered to my room
They were gifts from Zeus
I rock the bolts in a bassinet of pine
People ask me how I am
I say, "I'm all right, I'm fine"
[Verse 2]
I push the lightning bolts in a pram
Till the sun goes down and it gets dark
And the girls from Jubilee Street hang out their windows
And they wave and ask me how I am tonight
I say, "I'm good, I'm all right"
[Verse 3]
In Athens all the youths are crying from the gas
I'm by the hotel pool working on a tan
People come up and ask me who I am
I say, "If you don't know, don't ask"
Zeus laughs, but it's the gas
And he asks me how I am
I say, "Zeus, don't ask"
[Verse 4]
My lightning bolts are jolts of joy
They are joy boys from Zeus
I feed them porridge in their booster seats of knowledge
And in the cradle of democracy, the pigeons are wearing gas masks
[Verse 5]
My lightning bolts play in the elevators
They slide down the hotel banister
And Zeus throws a gas canister
And it spins around the pool
As pigeons wearing respirators steal the lightning bolts
Zeus wants them back
[Verse 6]
O my bolts of joy
O my darling little boys
They are lost to us
And people
They are never coming back
[Verse 7]
At night I watch them sleep
And cry years of tears
And it's not the gas
People ask me how we are
"We are," I say, "mostly lost"
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