| It's hard to live in the country | |
| In the present state of things | |
| Your body gets pulled right back | |
| You get a terrible urge to drink | |
| At three a.m. | |
| The stick people recede | |
| The locals get up your nose | |
| And leather soles stick on cobble stones | |
| It's hard to live in the country | |
| It has a delicate ring | |
| Nymphette new romantics come over the hill | |
| It gets a bit depressing | |
| Paper local | |
| Drunken scandal | |
| Publish your address as well | |
| Locals surround where you dwell | |
| Old ladies confiscate your gate railings | |
| For government campaigns | |
| Its tough in home country | |
| Councils hold the ring | |
| D. bowie look-alikes | |
| Permeate car parks | |
| Grab the churches while you can | |
| Port-a-loos | |
| Yellow cabins by methodist doors | |
| New jersey car parks permeated by | |
| D. bowie [sound-alikes] | |
| It's good to live in the country | |
| You can get down to real thinking | |
| Walk around look at geometric tracery | |
| Hedgehogs skirt around your leathered soles | |
| Fall down drunk on the road | |
| It's good to live in the country | |
| Look at yourself as a man | |
| The valley rings with ice-cream vans | |
| It's good to live in the country | |
| Leather soles stick on precinct flagstones | |
| Small up town americas like your outskirt town | |
| The villagers | |
| Are surrounding the house | |
| The locals have come for their due | |
| It's hard to live in the country |