They're going into their caves now
it's all quite startling!
Running around, dancing!
They're allowing themselves to make a mess!
It's all quite startling, it's exhilarating, it really is
Studying their rocks, looking really up close
They're outside almost permanently nowadays
they've certainly abandoned their churches
Not entirely, as refugees they can still pack them in
and psychic refugees, those times have gone
It's the caves now, they're going into their caves!

Gather 'round I gotta clear up the mystery
About the ancients who created our history
And why they made do with such simple sophistry
They were all on drugs
They were on hard drugs

For evidence I've travelled all the world over
And for decades I'd say that I was a rover
But I never saw a single place that was sober
We were all on drugs
They were on hard drugs

I'll tell you a few
Tokyo (drugs!)
Mexico (drugs!)
Birmingham (drugs!)
Rotherham (drugs!)
Silbury (drugs!)
Avebury (drugs!)
All of them on hard drugs

The ancients
travelled with ephedra and cocaine
To stave off hunger or to put down a migraine
(pron. mee-grain)
And no authorities would label them insane
'Cause they were all on drugs
They were on hard drugs

For those of you who hear this history lesson
I hope the evidence is not too depressing
But otherwise I knew that you would be guessing
That they were all on drugs
They were on hard drugs

I'll tell a few
Tokyo (drugs!)
Mexico (drugs!)
Rotherham (drugs!)
Nottingham (drugs!)
Silbury (drugs!)
Avebury (drugs!)
All of them on hard drugs

(Spoken) Learning the hard way
Learning the hard way

Now in conclusion to my story so clinical
Whenever cultures are achieving their pinnacle
It's not a product of the smug and the cynical
It's the ones on drugs
Those who're on hard drugs
The Stonehenge people story is telling
Psychedelic mushrooms lay around delling
Came from the same place as the stones they were felling
Yes they were all on drugs
They were on hard drugs

I'll tell you a few
Waterloo
Peterloo
Bakerloo
Port-a-loo
Liverpool
Sunday school
All cultures on hard drugs