Here's a surprise
To mark another year since you were born
Some ingredients & love are goin'
In the gateau
(In the gateau)

Cos your mama knows
Spongy mix won't rise if she don't knead
So your mother kneads cos she believes
In the gateau
(In the gateau)

People know, for goodness' sake
A child needs a birthday cake
Or he'll grow to be a hungry young man some day
Watch a young man growin' old
Better let him lick the bowl
Or do you simply turn him down
& send him on his way?

As we've all learned
When a hungry little boy with a runny nose
Needs a tissue just incase it goes
In the gateau
(In the gateau)

But his anger grows
& he starts to case a baker's store
With his hands full, he trips
& he falls to the floor
In the gateau
(In the gateau)

On that day of desperation
The young man broke the law
He took a knife, took a slice
Naughty, but it just wasn't nice
& his mama cries

As a crowd gathers 'round a hungry young man
Face down on the street, having done a faceplant
In the gateau
(In the gateau)

& as the young man cries
(In the gateau)
To mark another year since he was born
The silly little baby child has fallen
In the gateau
(In the gateau)

& his mama cries
(In the gateau)
(In the gateau)
(Ahh)