Well just today I was forced to say
  I'm going on a permanent holiday
  I'll drop what I'm doing, it's okay,
  I'm going on a permanent holiday
    Well I left a note saying I'll be gone for a long time,
  Yeah a long, long time
  It's gonna take a lot to bring me back now
  I won't spend another day in this heart-attack city
  It's messed up here and everything's money
  Those well-heeled boys that think they're so funny
  I left a note saying I'll be gone
    Well just today I was forced to say I'm going on a permanent holiday
  I'll drop what I'm doing, it's okay, I'm going on a permanent holiday
    Well I told them all I wasn't coming back for a long time,
  yeah a long, long time
  Well everything's fad and as for the fame
  well everything's got it's 15 minutes
  I've no idea where it all went bad
  But I guess you can't tell until you get down in it
  I told them all I wasn't coming back
    Well maybe I'll go to France or maybe Spain
  Cause the work that they do here is the kind that numbs my brain
  I need to get away and I'm never coming back 'cause my mind just
  turned off and my body's out of whack
  Va - Ca - Tion!
    Well just today I was forced to say I'm going on a permanent holiday
  I'll drop what I'm doing, it's okay, I'm going on a permanent holiday
    Just today I was forced to say I'm going on a permanent holiday
  I'll drop what I'm doing, it's okay, I'm going on a permanent holiday
  Well I left a note saying I'll be gone for a long time