[Intro]
Ahhhhhhh!
Ahhhhhhh!
What do you want, blood?

[Verse 1: Graham Maby]
Kids today
They're all the same
All call themselves
Some crazy name

[Pre-Chorus: Joe Jackson]
Yeah!
Mods and Rockers and Beatle freaks
Punks and skunks and kooks and geeks
You're lookin' in a mirror but you can't see your face, huh!
Look in a mirror but you can't see your face

[Verse 2: Graham Maby]
All those drugs
They can't be sane
All that noise
Affects their brains

[Pre-Chorus: Joe Jackson]
Tell it!
Sniffin' pot, smoking glue
Whatever terrible things they do
Smokin' LSD and such
It must be the reason why they can't talk much
[Chorus: Joe Jackson & Graham Maby]
And it's such a crime
How they waste their time
They can't get nowhere
They've all gone beat crazy!
Beat crazy!

[Verse 3: Graham Maby]
They say the world
Is in a mess
But they can talk
The way they dress

[Pre-Chorus: Joe Jackson]
Yes!
See the knee through the hole in their jeans
A hole in their pocket and it looks so mean
Hole in your T-shirt
What's that you said?
About as clever as a hole in the head

[Verse 4: Graham Maby]
Can't get no jobs
Can't get careers
With safety pins
Stuck through their ears
[Pre-Chorus: Joe Jackson]
Cut your hair, wuh!
Dye it green, wuh!
See it shine, with Brylcreem
A little dab'll do ya, a little dab a day
Or rub a dub it in a dreadlocks way

[Chorus: Joe Jackson & Graham Maby]
And it's such a crime
How they waste their time
They can't get nowhere
They've all gone beat crazy!
Beat crazy!

[Verse 5: Graham Maby]
And if the Russians
Ever come
They'll all be beating
Bongo drums

[Pre-Chorus]
Damn, beatniks rule!
Dropped out of kindergarten
Dropped out of school
Really hot on my bongo drums, rrrrrrrrrrr
Really hot on my bongo drums
[Verse 6: Graham Maby]
So who'll defend
In World War Three
Where could we turn?
Where would they be?

[Pre-Chorus: Joe Jackson]
Tell her!
Down the cellar, filled with smoke
Laughing at the latest joke
Doing the latest dance to do
The Frug and the Shimmy and the Suzi Q

[Chorus: Joe Jackson & Graham Maby]
And it's such a crime
How they waste their time
They can't get nowhere
They've all gone beat crazy!
Beat crazy!

[Outro: Joe Jackson]
You're lookin' in a mirror but you can't see your face
Drrrrrrrrr, ba ba ba ba
Beat crazy!
Red star rock and a business skank and a blue jean bobber and a
Beat crazy!
Huhhhhh uhhhhh uhhh
Baba baba baba
Beat crazy!