Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Problem, artist - Godley & Creme. Album song Ismism, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 18.10.1981
Record label: Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Song language: English
The Problem |
If a man, A, who weighs 11 stone |
Leaves from his home at 8:30 in the morning |
In a car whose consumption is 16.25 mpg |
At an average speed of 40 m.p.h |
To his office which is 12 miles away |
And he stops for a coffee on the way for 15 minutes |
And also puts air in one of his tyres |
Which has a slow puncture |
Letting out air at a rate of 2 lbs per square inch |
Per mile travelled |
When the car is moving at 32 m.p.h |
And he picks up a hitch-hiker B |
Who weighs 14 stone plus suitcase |
But hitch-hiker B who is a political activist |
Distributes leaflets from his suitcase |
Each of which weigh an ounce |
At the scale of 2 leaflets per person |
At every bus stop |
And every vehicle on either side of them |
At every red traffic light during the journey |
Which includes 20 bus stops |
With an average of 6 people per stop |
5 lorries each with a passenger |
One of which exchanged a Yorkie Bar |
Weighing an ounce for 12 of the leaflets |
And 2 coaches each containing 51 people |
7 of which from one coach returned the leaflets |
And 16 people from the other coach |
Who asked for a further leaflet |
Each for a member of one of their families |
Assuming that man A |
Then had to travel a further 2.86 miles |
Out of his way to drop off hitch-hiker B |
How late would man A be |
In arriving at the office by 9:30 a.m. |
If he still had 6 miles to travel |
And his watch was running 23 minutes slow |
But the clock at the office was running |
2 minutes faster than his |
Was in fact 17 minutes and 3 secs ahead |
Of the correct time |
Which was 2:30 in the morning in Caracas |
If when 5 miles from the office |
He telephoned his boss |
To apologize for being late |
But was told by his boss C |
To pick up a package 2.63 miles away |
From his present location |
And deliver it to client D in Bristol by train |
By 4:30 that afternoon |
And at the same time man D |
Was mistakenly told to come to London |
To receive same package from man A |
Now man A’s train, train 1 |
Left 30 mins. |
late |
But man D’s train, train 2 |
Left 5 mins early |
So when the trains passed each other |
Train 1 was travelling at 75 m.p.h |
To make up for lost time |
And train 2 was travelling at 52 m.p.h |
Would man A reach Bristol earlier or later |
According to his watch |
Which was now running 5 mins. |
slower |
Than man D’s would have been |
Had he not got off the train |
And checked the correct time |
At a station between Bristol and London |
And stopped to phone A’s boss, man C |
To double check A would be there to meet him |
And discover his mistake |
Catch next train, train 3, back to Bristol |
Which unlike A’s train 1 |
Which stopped at 4 stations on the way |
For 6 mins each stop |
Was an express train |
D’s train caught up with A’s train 1 |
4 miles from Bristol |
As the trains drew alongside each other |
A’s train was travelling at 12 m.p.h |
And D’s train was travelling at 13.6 m.p.h |
And man A was sat in the front |
How long would it take to fill the bath? |