Royal Canoe Fabulous Mess song lyrics

When you were young you fabulous mess

wearing your make-up, shaving your chest

No reservations

You dreamt of the opera, mastered your poise

Sang to your mirror, it loved your voice

your aspirations

Where have they gone tonight?

Playing the ghost when I thought you'd arrived

What ever came of moving away?

To sleep with the writer and star in the play

Your reservations

A decade of service, what did it bring?

You don't touch your wife, no you don't even sing

at celebrations

How do you fall asleep?

Your bed bears a harvest you'd rather not reap.

Do you still love Frederic Chopin?

Do you still dream about being a woman?

Do you still dance when no one's around?

Do you still talk about metheus bound?

What did they take away from you?

What did they take away from you?

Remember when you spoke all aloof like a thespian

You often wore baroque, and your friends were kind of lesbian

You keep it locked away in a jar in the basement

So put on those heels and cape, sing a song for the nations!

Ah...

When you were young you fabulous mess

wearing your make-up, shaving your chest

You dreamt of the opera, mastered your poise

Sang to your mirror, it loved your voice

What ever came of moving away?

To sleep with the writer and star in the play

A decade of service, what did it bring?

You don't touch your wife, no you don't even sing

at celebrations