Wado Wado Burning Bear

Verse 1

Cable hum and the studio glow

Red light blinking on the midnight show

Everything was changing through the plastic microphone

Friday night the screens went wild

Four lads grinning in monochrome style

Two years gone and the whole world owned the sound

Pre-Chorus

We were making it up

Making it up as we went along

Like the radio knew

Knew the words to our song

Chorus

Oh the magic in the middle

Turning our heads around

Sixty-five to sixty-seven

We shook the whole town down

And John and me

We wrote the spangled sky

Oh the magic in the middle

Wado wado burning bear

Wado wado burning bear

Verse 2

Tape reels spinning till the morning sun

Backwards tricks and the good clean fun

Hendrix on the corner of the road

Candy stripes and the satin sleeves

Janet Street and the London trees

Everything we touched just seemed to glow

Pre-Chorus

We were painting it out

Painting it out in electric pastel

Like the morning was ours

Ours till the day grew pale

Chorus

Oh the magic in the middle

Turning our heads around

Sixty-five to sixty-seven

We shook the whole town down

And John and me

We wrote the spangled sky

Oh the magic in the middle

Wado wado burning bear

Wado wado burning bear

Bridge

Sgt Sgt sit back and let it ride

The summer of the changing tide

Saturday so long and slow

Every strum a hello

Every chord a place to go

Groovy groovy let it flow

Guitar Solo

Chorus

Oh the magic in the middle

Turning our heads around

Sixty-five to sixty-seven

We shook the whole town down

And John and me

We wrote the spangled sky

Oh the magic in the middle

Wado wado burning bear

Wado wado burning bear

Outro

Wado wado

Burning bear

Wado wado

Take us there

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