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Whatever Happened To? [*] Lyrics

Whatever happened to twin sets?
Whatever happened to hi-fi?
Whatever happened to TV sex?
Whatever happened to you and I?

Your passion is a product of highlight and detail
That come-hither look, bonus offer retail

Whatever happened to pick-up trucks?
Whatever happened to yellow pages?
Whatever happened to burning books?
Whatever happened to new ages?

Your emotions are cheap, cut-price cash-and-carry
You wear your heart on your sleeve for any Tom, Dick or Harry

Your love is a cashed-in cheque
Oh, oh, that's the way of all flesh

Whatever happened to Chairman Mao?
Whatever happened to God above?
Whatever happened to the cow?
Whatever happened to plug-in love?

Your pasteurized life so fit for consumption
Ooh, those undressing eyes, so strictly commercial

Your love is a cashed-in cheque
Oh, oh, that's the way of all flesh
All flesh
All flesh

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songmeanings On Feb 06, 2012

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by madscijr

3y ago

Wow, I never had the lyric sheet for "Singles Going Steady", or knew this song was kind of a diatribe against commercially manufactured cultural attitudes or sexual mores & romance. How very Gang of Four of them!

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