Women's Studies - Lloyd Cole

I’m drinking tea

Taking unpaid leave from my

Women’s Studies, uh huh

Out here in the meadow

With A People’s History of America

I smoke a pipe to Johnny 99

Bipartisan Consensus

I’m keeping it dry, nothing flighty

On orders from my therapist

We were young and we were stupid

And it was fine while it lasted

To complete my education

I had to wake up in your bathtub

Oh, those Monday morning quarters

I grew so accustomed to

I’ve seen enough

I’ve made my recommendations

My work here is finished

Your powers of reduction

Remain strangely undiminished

Yes you, in your hushed tones

And your campus etiquette

If we cannot speak of nothing

Then nothing should keep her mouth shut

We were young and we were stupid

And it was fine while it lasted

Yes, I wrote my dissertation

On the barstools of your neighbourhood

But the bars were filled with lawyers

Filing action two by two

Through the valley of the women

That I am not married to

Are these riches here the spoils of my retreat?

These rented rooms and bachelor’s degree

It’s a Penguin Classic scene

Broken spine and faded green

Trying to relocate my arms

Around a memory

I’m drinking tea

Taking unpaid leave from my

Women’s Studies, uh huh

Hiding up here in the library

With The Great Wall Of China

If Josef K was from Edinburgh

And Fast Product from Prague

That could have been kind of funny

Or maybe not that funny at all

We were young and we were stupid

And it was fine while it lasted

To complete my education

I had to wake up in your bathtub

With the shadows of the women

That I am not married to