| They were fighting for their civil rights | |
| We were raising hell on motorbikes | |
| Then someone shouted anarchy | |
| We all got up to dance | |
| We answered revolutions call | |
| Drove the politicians up the wall | |
| But I guess we knew that it would end | |
| When we outgrew the cause | |
| Everything has changed, nothing stays the same | |
| The fashion thing was all the rage | |
| With bristles studs and razor blades | |
| Our parents thought that we were mad | |
| We'd totally lost control | |
| It was anti this and anti that | |
| But still they fed us all that crap | |
| About God, the Queen, the flag | |
| It was still worth dying for | |
| Everything has changed, nothing stays the same | |
| Now we stand for king and queen | |
| And all of life's desires | |
| Two kids, a wife, surburbia and an XR3 on hire | |
| Now we sing 'God save the queen' | |
| With a lot more of tradition | |
| We gladly stand and fall in line | |
| And forget the things we'd written | |
| The spirit I can still recall | |
| When I heard it in the record store | |
| The songs that broke the barriers down | |
| And gave us back our youth | |
| Freedom was our battle cry | |
| We swore we'd live or else we'd die | |
| And change the world a little bit | |
| While we still had the time | |
| Everything has changed, nothing stays the same | |
| Every generation comes of age | |
| And settles for the same old ways | |
| The rebel song is handed down to | |
| New champions of the cause | |
| But we always will remember when | |
| Those magic days of us and them | |
| Before we all grew up and moved away | |
| Everything has changed, nothing stays the same | |
| Now we stand for king and queen | |
| And all of life's desires | |
| Two kids, a wife, surburbia and an XR3 on hire | |
| Now we sing 'God save the queen' | |
| With a lot more of tradition | |
| We gladly stand and fall in line | |
| And forget the things we'd written | |
| -Solo- | |
| Everything has changed, nothing stays the same | |
| Now we stand for king and queen | |
| And all of life's desires | |
| Two kids, a wife, surburbia and an XR3 on hire | |
| Now we sing 'God save the queen' | |
| With a lot more of tradition | |
| We gladly stand and fall in line | |
| And forget, forget |