When the Brat Upstairs Got a Drum Kit - The Magnetic Fields

When the brat upstairs got a drum kit

She played her lil' heart out

Each bash and crash, each thwack and thump

Was free of doom or doubt

The plates would plummet from the rail

The cats would screech and zoom about

But you and I, we didn’t care

For we were living in love’s lair

When the kid upstairs discovered ska

The genre to which one jumps

She pogoed up and down the floor

The ceiling fell in clumps

T’was quiet when she was at school

Until the month she got the mumps

But you and I, did we complain?

We were in love, on Lovers' Lane

But you and I, we didn’t mind

For love is deaf, and dumb, and blind