Then Again - The Proclaimers

Then is here again

It’s never been away so don’t call it a comeback

Happy days of yore are all destroyed

And now it’s looking like a sad sack

I can’t believe that I couldn’t see

How many dodgy men were on the TV

While I was growing to a man

They took advantage of the fans

When I was a boy

They were stars of prime time television

But circumstances change

And some of them ended up in prison

Now, when they re-run Top Of The Pops

Some of the hosts have got the chop

I’m sleeping soundly in my bed

'Cos Jimmy Savile’s still dead

The swinging seventies

Used to sit on celebrities knees

The nineteen seventies

Sat on celebrities knees

Speculation began to roam

Like M.P.'s through a children’s home

«How many more», «what did they do»

Where were the girls and boys in blue?

Now the victims and their families

Have retrospective apologies

They’re told, that was then

It isn’t now

We’ve slaughtered all those sacred cows

Then is here again

It’s never been away so don’t call it a comeback

Happy days of yore are all destroyed

And now it’s looking like a sad sack

It’s then again

Then again