British summer, sky's light grey
Mostly haze, contains the day
Washer-driers on the blink
It's time to take a calming drink
Dirty dishes piling up,
She takes a slug from her ENO mug
Where she's hidden special treat,
Sounds of screeching kids retreat
Oh Mother's ruin x2
You'd never tell she can't tell what she's doing
A lifetime's lonely practice at hiding her infirmities
Takes more than the suburbs to bring her to her knees
Female Walter Mitty, spent her Twenties in the city
Running with the opera crowd, so some dreaming is allowed
She swapped low-down and dirty for Soap Opera of her thirties
A Life of absent husbands and putting out the dustbins
Oh Mother's ruin, always quietly pissed
You'd never know she don't know what time it is
Nohihng like a Hogarth sketch; a quiet smile, a little retch,
Burst of fizz, then it all goes quiet -
They call this Ladies' Delight?!?
She's old fashioned like a cocktail, life's like a dog chasing it's own tail
least it's always lunchtime in someone else's timezone ...
credits
from London, England,
released July 2, 2020
Written by j$ and played by Johnny Cashpoint.
