Gilbert O’Sullivan - Has Been lyrics

I think a lot about the times when
I was old and full on lines
Like man it's all so hip or was It groovy
Well anyway that's all so yuk
Like a book I didn't read last night
Concerning someone else's wife
Whose husband's son
Had ran off with his mother

And you know if 3 and 2
Were multiplied they'd equal 6
Little children started building
Not with bricks
But with what they had been told was
Advantageous to an old and sort of in between
Has been i must admit it frightens me to
Think we take so literally
The fact that you can get away with murder
There ought to be a law against
Common sense of course will not prevail
If people going into jail
Are doing so for fear of unemployment

And you know what makes a parrot talk
Is really rather cute what he does is listen
Close then follows suit
And within a minute two at best refers to you
As nothing less than some obscene has been

I've never had myself altered what for
I mean if I did i'm not sure
I'd be all that happy to see another me

I wouldn't be at all surprised
If I looked you straight in the eyes
And saw there were no
Stars only your eyeballs

And you know, if two and two were joined
By two they'd equal 6
Little children started building
Not with bricks
And without even the prompting
Will bestow on you
The daunting little words that mean has been
A sort of In between has been