The way life's meant to be

I'm still standing

As I wander around this wreck of a town

Where people never speak aloud

With its ivory towers

and its plastic flowers

I wish I was back in 1981

Just to see your face

Instead of this place

Now I know what you mean to me

And I wonder

Yes, I wonder

Is this the way life’s meant to be?

I want to know now.

Words and music by the Electric Light Orchestra.

“It was a bit Russian, but we put castanets on it, and it became Spanish.” (Bev Bevan.)

And then it became Ukrainian.

#standwithukraine