A Ballad Once In A While Doesn't

You Know, When You're 23 And You Get Pissed, I Mean Drunk, You Can Just Go Crazy And It's All Right. But If You're 43 And You Do It, It's Like Your Best Friend's Mother Who Used To Come In Pissed And Everybody Was Really Embarrassed. It Just Doesn't Go Down Well, You Know, After A Certain Age.

All These Fifty-year-old Guys Wearing Baseball Caps And Shorts And Acting Like Children. It Winds Me Up. Men Don't Have To Take Responsibility Anymore. Most Of The Guys I Know Would Punch Me On The Nose For Saying This, But Maybe We Do Have To Bring Back Conscription.

I Have No Sense Of Patriotism, But I Do Have A Sense Of Community.

I'm 34 Now, I Like To Say 35 Because It Makes Me Look Better For My Age, And I Have To Keep A Little Bit Of A Profile So That Every Three Years If I Do Put A Record Out, I Don't Have To Substantiate Where I've Been For Three Years And Why The Silence And The Sort Of False Mysterioso.

There's This Celebrity Thing That Goes Along With Making Records Or Being A Rock Star. I'm Into This Celebrity Thing Just Enough To Let Me Go On Making Records And Making A Living Out Of It.