The tables covered in beer
Showbiz whines, minute detail
It's a hand on the shoulder in Leicester Square
It's Vaudeville pub back room dusty pictures of white-frocked girls and music teachers
The bed's too clean
Water's poisonous for the system

Then you know in your brain
Leave the capitol!
Exit this Roman shell!
Then you know you must leave the capitol

Straight home, straight home, straight home
One room, one room

Then you know in your brain
You know in your brain
Leave the capitol!
Exit this Roman shell!
Then you know you must leave the capitol

Straight home, straight home, straight home
One room
It's Hogarth prints, mucky yellow prints
Eleven one one one
Then you know in your brain
You know in your brain
Leave the capitol!
I live with cancer death wife!
Then you know you must leave the capitol

(Straight home, straight home, straight home)
It will not drag me down
I will leave this ten times town
I will leave this fucking dump
(One room, one room)

Hotel maids smile in unison
Then you know in your brain
You know in your brain
Leave the capitol!
Exit this Roman shell!
Then you know you must leave the capitol

I laughed at the great god Pan
I didnae, I didnae
I laughed at the great god Pan
I didnae, I didnae
I didnae, I didnae, I didnae
I didnae, I didnae
I didnae, I didnae
Leave the capitol!
Exit this Roman shell!
Then you know you must leave the capitol

Pan resides in Welsh green masquerades
On Welsh cat caravans
But the monty
Hides in curtains
Grey blackish cream
All the paintings you recall
All the side-stepped cars
All the brutish laughs
From the flat and the wild dog downstairs