Single mothers, college drop out,
Drunken teens, divorce proceedings fall out,
Oo-oo-oh, oo-oo-oh,
Leading the postponed life,
The postponed life.

The rock star in the guitar stock room,
The ballet dancer in the police uniform,
Oo-oo-oh, oo-oo-oh,
Leading the postponed life,
The postponed life.

And everybody's boat has gone to sea,
And the worlds not slowing down,
Slowing down slowing down,
For anybody.

The arch bishop in the jail cell,
The astronaut behind the ch-ch-check out till,
Oo-oo-oh, oo-oo-oh,
Leading the postponed life,
The postponed life.

The unborn children in the egg shells,
Unwanted virgins with the p-p-pick up pills,
Oo-oo-oh, oo-oo-oh,
Leading the postponed life,
The postponed life.

And everybody's boat has gone to sea,
And the worlds not slowing down,
Slowing down slowing down,
For anybody.

Music blocks our jailer,
And it leave me in a wreck,
The words breath up the oxygen,
Like muses round our neck,
Far more expectations,
Than you I ever could expect,
I can only take so much more of this.

The focus phone booths in the sterile air,
Cleaned for the shoppers but there's no one there,
Oo-oo-oh, oo-oo-oh,
Leading the postponed life,
The postponed life.

A million planets wait for atmosphere,
A nuclear bomb waits for an ac-ac-accident,
Oo-oo-oh, oo-oo-oh,
Leading the postponed life,
The postponed life.

And everybody's boat has gone to sea,
And the worlds not slowing down,
Slowing down slowing down,
For anybody,
For anybody.