Four Minute Warning Mark Owen

Message on your stereo, four minute warning.
Everybody wants to know, what should we do?
The official story's a four minute warning.

Sasha stands in his yellow cafe,
Yes The heart of the city is here, so he tells me,
Sitting on his red leather sofa, he's rolling another,
Man, I'll see you when I see you.

Holly is set to be the next big thing,
In her high heeled boots, and her two inch earrings,
Heart of glass, Blondie, sings in her ear,
You're a rock queen honey and we all hear you!

Three minutes left to go, is this the end, then?
Message on your stereo, four minute warning.
Everybody wants to know, what should we do?
The official story's a four minute warning.

Lucy had a hard time with love,
But love recently chose the right time for Lucy,
Loving when you know it's the final time,
She now holds time in her own mind.

Yeah, Jimmy's is the local for Michael,
A Guinness in one hand, in the other a fable, able,
I once asked are you a lonely man?
His reply was non-committal, 'I am what I am'.

Two minutes left to go, is this the end, then?
Message on your stereo, four minute warning.
Everybody wants to know, what should we do?
The official story's a four minute warning.

The final story is one of me,
Who with four minutes left has used up three,
I think of you, I think of me,
Then I think of nothing, it's the end you see,

yeah! One minute left to go, is this the end, then?
Message on your stereo, four minute warning.
Everybody wants to know, what should we do?
The official story's a four minute warning.

What would you do, yeah?

With a four minute warning, a four minute warning...

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Four Minute Warning is a sounding of sirens in the United Kingdom to warn of a nuclear attack four minutes before impact. Many sirens were dismantled at the end of the Cold War but most cities still have them.

I came across some forums on the internet where people say what they would do in the event of the Four Minute Warning:

"I would light up my one and only gen-u-ine cuban cigar (which I am saving for a life changing occasion and I guess this would count as one) then take me place in my deckchair in the front lawn and await the impending doom."

"I'd take the bike out and wring the guts out of it after first ingesting the entire content of both drinks cabinet and medicine chest. then find out that RV's pigeon has set it off accidently.."

"I live in a tenement. Due to having downstairs neighbours I have never been able to turn my Hi Fi system more than a quarter of the way up (borderline police calling volume) So guess what I would do if the nuclear warheads started dropping? Yeah you guessed right that Marantz PM 4200 amplifier is going all the way up to to the halfpast six postion! Some "badass rock n roll" from the Soledad Brothers would do the trick nicely before the gigantic nuclear shockwave scattered my atoms around a 50 mile radius."

"The "telephone prefence service" can cut off about 95% of britain`s phones in a few seconds to allow the system to cope in a attack or emergncy situation. It has been used in some cases Hungerford for example. Also mobile phones have the same style system which is mainly used in disaster sitations as they don`t want loads of people saying the same thing cloging up the system. BTW.. If you suspect that the above has happened use a call box these are catgory 1 and are not cut off..."

"The UK telephone preference service (also know as one2one! Allegedly) allows emergency services to use the phones. I must find out about this as it sounds like great fun. Ms Lumley I am sure does the gig. Does she get royalties?"