Parasol - Sarah Slean

Long neck, shipwrecked terrified swan

Lies in her mind left a burner on

We crowd into the grand salon

We’re watching the mansion burn

And I’m not quite down with the way they roll

They throw knives from their eyes at my parasol

And I’m only human after all

Go easy on me

Oh it’s not like a country lane

A day on the beach in Spain

I’m courting a madness

I cannot explain

Oh Virginia

We didn’t know you had it in ya

Oh Sweet Virginia

And I coughed this up in a sooty perfume

Out of my mouth like a feather plume

And now here’s one more crazy tune

Adversity rings my bell

And the wound came loose with a terrrible stench

The pain left a stain on my piano bench

And I chased it with a monkey wrench

Cursing in my broken french

It’s not like a country lane

A day on the beach in Spain

I’m courting a madness

I cannot explain

Oh Virginia

We didn’t know you had it in ya

Oh Sweet Virginia

And no you can’t play that in this serious hall

Only apes wearing capes get the curtain call

Your invitation to the ball

Must be lost in the mail

And I don’t quite feel like working this crowd

The rest has requested that I dumb it down

They’ll run your circus right out of town

If you won’t abide, but it’s suicide

Not like a country lane

A day on the beach in Spain

I’m courting a madness

I cannot explain

Oh Virginia

We didn’t know you had it in ya

Oh Sweet Virginia

We didn’t know you had it in ya

Oh Sweet Virginia