The World & His Wife (live)
(alternate slower version, submitted by craig ciccone)
The family circle gathers 'round from very far & near
To pass around the same remarks they passed away last year
The little girl you dangled on your knee without mishap
Stirs something in your memory & something in your lap
(chorus)
The juniper berry has a very deadly kiss
I would say that something here is very much amiss
But it's a living & this is the life
For the world & his wife
The world & his wife
The kissing cousins step outside to cuddle & confess
She says sweet nothing at all, it's much more of a mess
She says, "our mother & someone else's father
Went for two weeks holiday in tarmasalata."
Daddy went out the rubbish & he kept on walking
Between mum & the walls, god only knows who does the talking
Chorus
The conversation melts like chocolate down our open jaws
Through the loud appeal of laughter & the counting of [?]
And later on in the evening, through the tears & fol de rol
Come the sentimental feelings for the lure of vitriol
Longing thoughts go hankering for the old home overseas
With a blindfold & a national anthem sung in different keys
Chorus
