Divine Comedy - If I Were You (I'd Be Through With Me) Lyrics
You know, quite for no reasonI'm here for the seasonAnd high as a kite -Living in errorWith Maud at Cap Ferret(Which couldn't be right)...Everyone's here, and frightfully gay;Nobody cares what people say,Though the RivieraSeems really much queererThan Rome at its height!On Wednesday nightI went to a marvellous partyWith Noonoo, and Nada, and Nell -It was in the fresh air,And we went as we were,And we stayed as we were,(Which was hell)Poor Grace started singing at midnight,And she didn't stop singing 'til four -We knew the excitement was bound to beginWhen Laura got blind on Dubonnet and ginAnd scratched her veneer with a Cartier pin!I couldn't have liked it more!I've been to a marvellous partyWe played a wonderful game:Maureen disappearedAnd came back in a beard,And we all had to guess at her name...Cecil arrived wearing armour,Some shells and a black feather boa -Poor Millicent wore a surrealist combMade of bits of mosaic from St. Peter's in Rome,But the weight was so great that she had to go home!And I couldn't have liked it more!I've been to a marvellous partyI must say the fun was intense;We all had to doWhat the people we knewMight be doing a hundred years hence...We talked about growing old gracefully,And Elsie - who's seventy-four -Said,
