All you kids that just sit and whine
You should have been there back in '89
You say we're giving you a real hard time
You boys are really breaking my heart
Villa beat Arsenal, what a game
The blood was running in the drains
Intercity took the trains
And really took the place apart

That was the year Ceaucescu died
And all his pals committed suicide
The world we knew busted open wide
In the winter of '89

I'd been doing the things I did
A pint of beer was still two quid
As acid parties flipped their lid
Around the M25
They hiked the price of H2O
But nuclear fuels could not be sold
The city slickers just said no
In the winter of '89

The ambulances went on strike
And interest tripled overnight
And Salman Rushdie had to hide
In the winter of '89
The Chinese students in Peking
Demanded freedom without strings
They died in 1000's in the spring
The government never resigned
But Eastern Europe had a ball
As dominoes began to fall
They opened up the Berlin Wall
In the winter of '89

And that was the end of Egon Krenz
And Western experts on defence
And Noriega's brave defence
In the winter of '89
Yes that was the end of Egon Krenz
In the winter of '89
And that was the end of all his friends
In the winter of '89