Sam Weldon - The Puzzle Makers Lyrics

Once there were the puzzles
In the back of the papers
Working out a puzzle
On the back of a bus
Working out a puzzle
On a double decker bus
We like to solve a puzzle
We like it, we like it

They were the puzzle makers
They were the puzzle creators

People like a puzzle
So they put them on the walls
Put them on the floors
And the gallery halls
People like the crosswords
On the gallery walls
They like to play Sudoku
On the gallery floors
We like it, we like it

They are the puzzle makers
They are the puzzle creators

Where are all the cockneys?
Where are the Arthur Daley's?
They sold them down the Thames
To the Home Counties
They sold him down the river
To the Home Counties

Arthur Daley's
On a wall
Prime position
On a gallery wall
Laughing in a
Golden frame

Minder is building an
Installation
Arthur is reading out
Instructions

"You want to be a success
You want to go far
Get to the yard and learn
To sell a second hand car!"

We are the puzzle makers
We are the puzzle creators

Art imitates life
Life imitates art
The world is a puzzle
Though you couldn't
Have scripted it
You couldn't
Have predicted it

Puzzled
In the newsrooms
Puzzles on the
Rostrums
As the news
Reader's stumble
The autocue
Is anagram

Tectonic plates
Are shifting
They're not quite
Fitting
This jigsaw's sinking
And the weatherman's
Misplaced his map

Whilst the machine
From Countdown
Is churning out
Numbers
All the wrong
Numbers
They just don't
Add up

We are the puzzle makers
We are the puzzle makers