Bragg Billy The Short Answer Lyrics

The Short Answer Lyrics

Between Marx and marzipan in the dictionary there was Mary
Between the deep
blue sea and the devil that was me
If ever anyone could help me with my
obsession with
The young Susannah York it was Mary
If my pink pyjamas she
asked me for something
I gave her the short answer
She read our stars out
load
And I knew then that we should have gone sailing
But we stayed home
instead
Fighting on the waterbed
Like the honeymoon couple on drugs
Me
and Mary
What happened in the past
Remained a mystery of natural
history
She should have been the last
But she was just the latest
If
she wanted to be a farmer's wife
I would endure that muddy life
I would
dig for victory
And the sound of happy couples
Coupling happily in the
dark
While you and I sat down to tea
I remember you said to me
That no
amount of poetry
Would mend this broken heart
But you can put the Hoover
round
If you want to make a start
All my friends from school
Introduce
me to their spouses
While I'm left standing here
With my hands down the
front of my trousers
I just don't know what's to be done
I wonder
sometimes how did Dad meet Mum
And how did they conceive of me
Tell me
Mary
The boys who came to the shop
Always made her laugh much more than I
did
When I told her this must stop
She didn't bat an eyelid
She said
you know honey it's such a shame
You'll never be any good at this
game
You bruise too easily
So said Mary
Her two brothers took me
out
Of circulation for the duration
So we went our separate ways but does
she still love me
She still has my door key
Like a bully boy in a Benetton
shop
You're never happy with what you've got
Till what you've got has
gone
Sorry Mary