Call me morbid
Call me pale
I've spent six years on your trail
Six long years on your trail
Call me morbid
Call me pale
I've spent six years on your trail
Six full years of my life
on your trail
And if you have
five seconds to spare
Then I'll tell you
the story of my life

Sixteen, clumsy and shy
I went to London and I
I booked myself in at the Y....W.C.A
I said: "I like it here, can I stay?
I like it here, can I stay?
And, do you have a vacancy
For a back-scrubber?"

She was left behind
and sour
And she wrote to me
equally dour
She said:
"In the days when you were
hopelessly poor
I just liked you more..."
So if you have
five seconds to spare
Then I'll tell you
the story of my life

Sixteen, clumsy and shy
I went to London and I
I booked myself in at the Y....W.C.A
I said: "I like it here, can I stay?
I like it here, can I stay?
And, do you have a vacancy
For a back-scrubber?"

Call me morbid
Call me pale
I've spent too long on your trail
Far too long
Chasing your tail
And if you have
five seconds to spare
Then I'll tell you
the story of my life

Sixteen, clumsy and shy
That's the story of my life
Sixteen, clumsy and shy
The story of my life
That's the story of my life
That's the story of my life
That's the story of my life
The story of my life