There are many different people, livin' double lives   One for the office and one that they take home to their wives   He sits in the armchair, watching channel 4   With his brains not expected home for an hour or more   He's still drifting to and fro, like a yo-yo      Wife is in the kitchen, fixin' her old man's tea   She's thinking to herself   "He's not the man that married me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"   They used to laugh together, now he's never at home   Now she's fighting back the tears, she can't even laugh alone   She's just sitting by the telephone, like a yo-yo      You needed me when you were crying   Now you're laughing I'm the last thing on your mind   First you love me, then you don't   I'm up and down   Like a yo-yo, yo-yo      Ah, you thought you knew me pretty well   With people like me you never can tell   You can only guess which way I'll go   You got me sussed, but you don't know      I'm a yo-yo   Just like a yo-yo on a string   I'm a yo-yo   Little child playing with a yo-yo   (Yo-yo)   Yo-yo      Girl you had me dangling, like a yo-yo on a string   But with you at the controls I could accomplish anything   Yeah yeah,yeah, yeah.   You were just playing, I was a little boy   But when I grew into a man you just threw away your toy   Like a yo-yo, yo-yo      You might be popular, but it won't last for long   So don't give up the day job, in case it all goes wrong   Look at your ego, watch it go, up and down   Like a yo-yo, yo-yo   (Yo-yo)      You needed me when you were crying   But now you're laughing I'm the last thing on your mind   First you love me, then you don't   I'm up and down      Like a yo-yo, yo-yo   (Yo-yo)   I'm a yo-yo   (Yo-yo)   Like a yo-yo   (I'm a yo-yo)   (I'm a yo-yo)