D'you think I'd have to choose? D'you think I'd wear brown shoes? D'you think that I'd ever have to read about this in the news? You're gonna have a go? Well I don't want to know I just thought that I should try and say hello To those who'd never exist without being generic You'll have to impress Our bovine public You'd never exist if you wasn't generic You'll have to impress Our bovine public I'll never forget how all this begun And I will never regret a thing I have done But you would never exist without us. So maybe I do not have the time Fair-weather friends of mine A year's a long time to be doing nothing with your life I heard you felt alert Well I'm hoping that it hurt You seem to spend too much time in groundwork to be ground into the dirt By those who'd never exist without being generic You'll have to impress Our bovine public You'd never exist if you wasn't generic You'll have to impress Our bovine public I'll never forget how all this begun And I will never regret a thing I have done But you would never exist without us. You say nothing So you will always mean nothing to me And if what you say means nothing Then what you say will always mean nothing to me D'you think I'd have the time Fair-weather friends of mine A year's a long time to be doing nothing with your life I heard you felt alert Well I'm hoping that it hurt You seem to spend too much time in groundwork to be ground into the dirt By those who'd never exist without being generic You'll have to impress Our bovine public You'd never exist if you wasn't generic You'll have to impress Our bovine public I'll never forget how all this begun And I would never regret the one thing I've done But you would never exist without us So maybe I do