in the 1920s a man with a box came to stay
in the 1930s the man with a box went away
in the 1940s a man with a box went beserk
in the 1950s the man with a box left for work

a man with a box could be loving and he knows it
but a man with a box don´t work that way
a man with a box could be loving if he tried it
but his rainclouds are permanently grey

in the 1960s a man with a box opened up
in the 1970s the man with a box drained his cup
in the 1980s a man with a box came along
and in the 1990s a man with a box wrote this song

chorus

a man with a box made a train escape from euston
while his butterflies went wild in the woods
the police report stated that every year at margate
the daisies grew a different shade of brown
man...