Gardening At Night - R.E.M.

Heard the neighbour slam his car door

Don’t he realise this is respectable street

What d’you think he bought that car for

'cos he realise this is respectable street

Now they talk about absorption

In cosmopolitan proportions to their daughters

As they speak of child prevention

And immaculate receptions on their portable

Sony entertainment centres.

Now she speak about diseases

And which proposition pleases best her old man

Avon lady fills the creases

When she manages to squeeze in past the caravans

That never move from their front gardens.

It’s in the order of their hedgerows