Everything Stops for Tea

Everything Stops for Tea is a song by Professor Elemental and the fifteenth track on the 2012 album Father of Invention. It samples the 1935 song "Everything Stops for Tea" by Jack Buchanan as the refrain.

Lyrics
You're sitting at your desk

The report's due in by three

And its ten past now, but for heavens sake

Its still about time for tea

Or your wife or husband left you

Taking kids, furniture and the keys

Well pull yourself together, keep calm and carry on

Take time out for tea

A superhero saves the world from a fiendish villain's spree

Needs to get back to the Batcave

Where Alfred's got the tea

A captain on the ocean hits an iceberg and might freeze

But before he mans the lifeboat, well there's still time for tea!

(Refrain)

Its a very good English custom

Though the weather be cold or hot

If you need a little pickup

Pour a little teacup

It'll always hit the spot

The soldiers may be fighting

In trenches or in battles in the sea

But there isn't any war when the clock strikes four

Everything stops for tea!

One... two... three... four: everything stops for tea!

One... two... three... four: everything stops for tea!

One... two... three... four: everything stops for tea!

One... two... three... four: everything stops for tea!

This truly mighty empire

Wasn't built in an afternoon

Cause we had to stop for muffins and stuffed buttered crumpets

And a fresh pot brewed for two

Gameskeeper or a poacher

Whether lord or a cleaner of the loo

Whether rich or poor when the clock strikes four you know just what to do!

When Queen Vic ran the country, she was grumpy then my friends

Just a little bit of puff and a pot of brown stuff and it picked her up again

If your life is filled with hardships, well that's awful poor old you

But you'll always have me and you'll always have tea, so come on and pour that brew!

(Refrain)

Its a very good English custom

Though the weather be cold or hot

If you need a little pickup

Pour a little teacup

It'll always hit the spot

The soldiers may be fighting

In trenches or in battles in the sea

But there isn't any war when the clock strikes four

Everything stops for tea!

Song Themes
Tea, Procrastination