Chairman Mao's Vacation Lyrics - Deacon Blue

They painted us up 

and shouted us down 

they wanted us to be 

just a face in the crowd 

and all the time they never saw 

the people we are 

in a world of fast cars 

every time you pass 

you try not to laugh at me 

you don't want to love me out sympathy 

I guess that you admire me 

for my humility 

in a world of fast cars 

We don't hear the jokes 

that eveyone else hears 

when they walk behind us 

on our holidays 

we just don't fit into deckchairs 

and take walks along the pier 

Even the lonely people 

deal us out 

think I'll walk down town 

and sit on a roundabout 

and drivers will keep driving 

cos' they're too polite to shout 

"hey look at that fat boy" 

in a world of fast cars