Time ain't gonna wait
For even you, my friend
I can't stay late
I'm looking at the end
Ace high, hypnotized
And sucked into that scene
Taking on a guise, it was really me

Hard years later
And we're still hanging on
For the St. Jackpot score
That's never gonna come

Not running away now
Been running all day
But it's falling apart now
It's been coming all day

Oh, I have been your laughing boy
I took it on the chin
Accepted gracefully
And all the heat that you deploy (your laughing boy)
The more I take (your laughing boy)
The more I break

Cooking fires on a beach
Smoke finger in the sky
You know that's where I should be
My baby by my side
Good times from the start
Remember (yeah) the now
The palace gang's back to old things
And that's my cue
I'm gettin' out in style

For I have been your laughing boy (your laughing boy)
I took it on the chin (your laughing boy)
Accepted gracefully
And all the heat that you deploy (your laughing boy)
The more I take (your laughing boy)
The more I break

Not running away now
Been running all day
But it's falling apart now
It's been coming all day

Oh, I have been your laughing boy (your laughing boy)
I took it on the chin (your laughing boy)
Accepted gracefully
And all the heat that you deploy (your laughing boy)
The more I take (your laughing boy)
The more I break

For I have been your loving boy (your laughing boy)
I took it on the chin (your laughing boy)
Accepted gracefully
Take all the heat that you deploy (your laughing boy)
The more I take (your laughing boy)
The more I break

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Writer(s): Graham Coxon, John Taylor, Nick Rhodes, Roger Taylor, Simon Le Bon