Lyrics A Lady Of A Certain Age.lrc The Divine Comedy
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[ti:A Lady Of A Certain Age]
[ar:The Divine Comedy]
[al:Victory For The Comic Muse]
[00:01.12]A Lady Of A Certain Age – The Divine Comedy
[00:22.84]Back in the day
[00:24.17]you had been part of the smart set
[00:28.15]You’d holidayed with kings,
[00:30.70]dined out with starlets
[00:33.63]From London to New York,
[00:35.76]Cap Ferrat to Capri
[00:38.89]In perfume by Chanel
[00:41.15]and clothes by Givenchy
[00:44.76]You sipped camparis with David and Peter
[00:49.88]At Noel’s parties by Lake Geneva
[00:55.44]Scaling the dizzy heights of high society
[01:00.88]Armed only with a cheque book
[01:03.36]and a family tree
[01:05.77]You chased the sun around the Cote d’Azur
[01:11.89]Until the light of youth became obscured
[01:17.43]And left you on your own and in the shade
[01:22.77]An English lady of a certain age
[01:28.28]And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
[01:32.85]
[01:33.51]You’d say with a conspiratorial wink
[01:38.23]
[01:39.16]You wouldn’t think that I was seventy
[01:43.97]
[01:44.72]And he’d say,
[01:45.61]No, you couldn’t be
[01:48.22]
[01:52.89]You had to marry someone very very rich
[01:57.32]
[01:58.10]So that you might be kept in the style to which
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[02:03.66]You had all of your life been accustomed to
[02:09.16]But that the socialists had taxed away from you
[02:14.00]You gave him children, a girl and a boy
[02:19.97]To keep your sanity a nanny was employed
[02:25.52]And when the time came they were sent away
[02:30.49]
[02:31.00]Well that was simply what you did in those days
[02:35.83]You chased the sun around the Cote d’Azur
[02:41.79]Until the light of youth became obscured
[02:47.33]And left you on your own and in the shade
[02:52.73]An English lady of a certain age
[02:58.25]And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
[03:03.54]You’d say with a conspiratorial wink
[03:08.25]
[03:08.91]You wouldn’t think that I was sixty three
[03:14.76]And he’d say,
[03:15.68]No, you couldn’t be
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[03:23.37]Your son’s in stocks and bonds and lives back in Surrey
[03:28.96]Flies down once in a while and leaves in a hurry
[03:33.33]
[03:34.28]Your daughter never finished her finishing school
[03:39.85]Married a strange young man of whom you don’t approve
[03:44.51]Your husband’s hollow heart gave out one Christmas Day
[03:50.13]
[03:50.74]He left the villa to his mistress in Marseilles
[03:56.13]And so you come here to escape your little flat
[04:00.72]
[04:01.48]Hoping someone will fill your glass and let you chat about how
[04:07.07]You chased the sun around the Cote d’Azur
[04:12.55]Until the light of youth became obscured
[04:17.91]And left you all alone and in the shade
[04:23.45]An English lady of a certain age
[04:28.94]And if a nice young man would buy you a drink
[04:34.23]You’d say with a conspiratorial wink
[04:39.90]You wouldn’t think that I was fifty three
[04:44.87]
[04:45.47]And he’d say,
[04:46.43]No, you couldn’t be
[04:51.88]Year of Release: 1999