I met him in a crowded room
where people go
to drink away their gloom
he sat me down and so began
the story of a charmless man
educated the expensive way
he knows his claret from a beaujolas
I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kay
but then nature didn't make him that way
he thinks he's educated,
airs those family shares
will protect him that we will respect him
he moves in circles of friends
who just pretend that they like him
he does the same to them
and when you put it all together
there's the model of a charmless man
he knows the swingers and their calvary
says he can get in everywhere for free
I began to go a little cross eyed
and from this charmless man
I just had to hide
he talks at speed he gets nose bleeds
he doesn't see his days
are tumbling down upon him
and yet tries so hard to please
he's just so keen for you to listen
but no one is listening
and when you put it all together
there's the model of a charmless man