When the Beatles Hit America

Due to a miracle marketing strategy Beyond the realms of reasonable possibility It is announced simultaneously On radio, compact disc and TV That John, Paul, George and Ringo Are going to be reforming as The Beatles in 1993 Things skip into action immediately George buys the film rights in a flurry of activity Paul says they're not going to play Japan Ringo cancels his three year chat show plan And John, who was never the quiet one John stays silent for the time-being And the world sings When the Beatles Hit America When the Beatles Hit America It's going to be sponsored by... When the Beatles Hit America When the Beatles Hit America And lawyers start to draw up large contracts Involving sponsorship, t-shirt deals, Michael Jackson They're interviewed on live TV About management deals and corporate policy And who's gonna be the manager of the new Beatles? The manager is made up of cloned parts of Col Tom Parker and Col Sanders And George says he's not even going to play Unless they bring the Maharishi Yes, the Fab Four are interviewed on live TV But for some reason they're just the Fab Three And a cardboard cut out of John With a very strange smile and no shoes on Which starts a scurrilous John is Dead rumor Which Rolling Stone reveals is just hype for the tour And the world sings When the Beatles Hit America When the Beatles Hit America It's going to be sponsored by ... When the Beatles Hit America When the Beatles Hit America Well, The Who, The Stones, Debbie Gibson and Diana Ross Record a Supergroup single at great cost But it's so hard to make the charts Because everyone's taken the new Beatles to heart And from the time of the announcement of the gig To the gig at Che Stadium two years later Every record in the Top Forty on both sides of the Atlantic is written by Lennon McCartney And finally they get into the studio To be co-produced by George Martin and Jeff Lynne And Ringo disappointed to find that no one Needs him anymore except for the vibe Because he's been sampled And he's now part of the Great Drummers Sampled series George gets Monty Python in to do the vocals Linda takes a lot of photos For a book that's sold out Before she even though of putting it out And John, who was never the quiet one Makes all his press contributions from his old songs In tune, in time and with the backing track behind him And they ask him how it's been in the studio he says "It's been a hard day's night" And now one understands him but he always was the cryptic one And the world sings When the Beatles Hit America When the Beatles Hit America It's going to be sponsored by... When the Beatles Hit America When the Beatles Hit America Finally the record hits the shelves And it's called The Beatles... From Ourselves And for anyone who didn't realize or know It sounded a lot like ELO, or ELP, or XTC, ABC, YMO, BTO But it's didn't sound much like PSI.. Love You And the day before the big gig at Che The rumor goes round People saying they're not going to play That the whole thing's been a big insurance scam To get the reissues selling again - CYNICAL - but isn't John dead? Suddenly we're over in the stadium We're live on CNN, MTV, BBC And the lights go down and the screaming stops And you could hear a pin drop... And suddenly they're there All four of them And I get scared As they go into I Saw Her Standing There And thunder through the best set in the world And encore with the whole of Sgt Pepper IN ORDER, and they're Gods And I'm in HEAVEN... But on the very last chord of A Day in the Life The Beatles are beamed off into outer space Into a waiting spaceship Which takes them to a better place A place where reunions are not expected of anybody Not even... This is my dream I bought it I bought the product And now I'm happy You can believe what you like It happened That's all folks And the world sings When the Beatles Hit America When the Beatles Hit America It's going to be sponsored by... When the Beatles Hit America When the Beatles Hit America