[Chorus]
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?

When people are unoccupied, as far as I can make out
They get together and the sing and dance
Or else watch somebody else do it
Nowadays we live in a non-participative culture
And we don't do very much singing and dancing
We are lugubrious
But we watch other people do it on television
What we really are interested in is to be able to spend all the time going
“gohooda-bada-doo boom-di-di-boo-ba gohooda-bada-doo
Boom-di-di-boo-ba bee-boo doodie-boodie doo-doo tchi-ko”
You know something like this
And that's what our heart's doing
That's what our lungs are doing
That's what our eyeballs are doing
And it's what all these fantastic capillaries of the veins are doing, they're going
“joo-di-boo-di, huppa-bubba, umpa-buba jee-dee-dee-dee,”
And that's the point
And now the thing is ought this to be allowed [Laughs]
You know?
Dare we admit it?
[Chorus]
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?

Because we've been brought up you see
In a cultural context
In which the universe is presided over by somebody serious
It's only very, very occasional obscure references in the Jewish and Christian scriptures
To the idea that God dances
Of course in Hindus they know Shiva dances, and all the Gods dance
They're represented in the dance
But in our way of looking at things
No
Back, that deep down in there is something that you must respect
You mustn’t laugh in church
Especially if you got in front of the throne of heaven
Everybody would be dead silent
Wow! You see, I mean that's really serious
Here is the father Almighty, world without end
And you watch out!
Don't you laugh
Why not?
Because father Almighty, world without end, is a very insecure fellow
Anybody laughed he might feel uneasy, you know?
Like something wrong going on
Someone challenged his power
[Chorus]
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?
What do people do most of the time?
And what would they like to do really?
What's your idea of heaven?
What's your idea of heaven?

So he is a funny fellow, you see?
As we've mythologized
Ultimate reality in the form of this cosmic grand papa
Who is also a king
And is demanding above all things reverence and respect