Three Minute Boy Lyrics - Marillion

Here today 

Gone this afternoon 

Another tune we almost remember 

What's the story 

Sex and drugs again 

Business as usual 

The clock's already ticking 

La la la la 

When he was young 

Staring at the TV 

He watched the fun happenin' to other people 

Now they scream 

As they run after him 

Like a dream 

Like Elvis and the Beatles 

A three minute song is all he wrote 

He only did it for a joke 

They played him on the radio 

From Tokyo to Timbuktu 

A three minute boy, ain't that somethin' 

They named their children after him 

The good times rolled beneath his feet 

He skipped along the one-way street 

She's a pretty girl 

She don't know how it started 

She made a movie 

He almost remembered 

She measured up 

They moved into a basement 

"We're so in love!" 

They giggled to the nation 

La la la la 

Three minute millionaire they said 

The numbers rattled round his head 

They spun him three times round the globe 

She waited patiently at home 

And all the pretty girls wanted him 

In places that he'd never been 

Too much love will do you in 

Forgive Forgive Forgive Forgive 

Yeah Yeah Ooo 

Three minute kid is here again 

Surrounded by three minute friends 

He found someone to understand 

To shock the world and hold his hand 

No religion, no restraint 

No direction, no complaints 

No future and no way out 

No time now to think about it 

All the money's gone 

He don't know what he spent it on 

Girlfriends gone off with the Jag 

Gone back to her mum and dad 

He's curled up on the studio floor 

He just can't do it anymore 

The flashgun went off without warning 

He'll read about it tomorrow morning 

She's goin' out with someone new 

In this week at number two 

Three minute boy ain't that somethin'