Datassette starts up
And then it stops again
Tape jammed inside it
But it takes too much time to mend
Now it's a wreck
A pain in the neck to me
I'm just a poor boy; disks are a fantasy
Because it's "errors high, patience low", wave goodbye, then they go
Any way you load it doesn't seem to fix it for me, for me

"Mama," I said to her
"My tapes won't load no more,
and I hate that '64"
Mama, errors fill my mind
And I can't seem to make them go away
Mama ooh
I will have to sort it out
If they mess up again this time tomorrow
Going wrong, going wrong, but it doesn't really matter

Too late, it's crashed again
I have to draw the line, 'cos it's crashing all the time
Goodbye everybody - I've got to go
To the hardware store where I can get it fixed
Mama ooh
I've got to go out
I wish the thing just never went wrong at all

(guitar solo)

"I see some broken wires in the cable here"
"Fix it now fix it now" "Why not come back on Thursday"
""This tape cables broken"
"Surely you are jokin'"
(Eep)

Fix the Commie (fix the commie)
Fix the Commie (fix the commie)
Fix the commie fix it now (just fix it now-oh-oh-oh-oh)

I see some dead wires, can't fix 'em now though
(He sees some dead wires, how to fix doesn't know
Give him some time and just leave him alone)
"Errors high, patience low"
"Come back tomorrow"
Bismilah no! "'cos my patience is low"
"Tomorrow!"
Bismilah "'cos my patience is low"
"Tomorrow!"
Bismilah "'cos my patience is low"
"Tomorrow"
"my patience is low"
"Tomorrow"
"my patience is low"
"Tomorrow-oh-oh-oh-oh"
"No no no no no no no"
"Come back later, come back later"
(Come back later tomorrow)
I fear that it will not ever load a tape again
Again
Again

(guitar solo)

So my datasette stops me by trying to die
So I'll get a replacement or just a disk drive
Oh baby
No more tapes for me baby
All I need now
All I need now's some more money

(guitar solo)

Nothing seemed to fix it, tapes are history
Nothing seemed to fix it
Nothing seemed to fix it for me

(Any way you load it...)