Elvis Costello Opportunity song lyrics

Born in the middle of a 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

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Opportunity, opportunity

This is your big opportunity

They shop around

follow you without a sound

Whatever you do now

Don't turn around

Whatever happened to the pride of the nation?

They say, "just wait until you break formation"

She was sitting 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 be taking over"

I said I'd come to her defense and then she pulled me over

[Chorus]

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 was full of General Motormen

And the "Hello House of Beauty" wouldn't stand a chance with them

The chairman of this boredom is a compliment collector

I'd like to be his funeral director

[Chorus]

Please don't turn around...