Garden Party
Marillion

(Derek Dick, Steve Rothery, Mark Kelly, Pete Trewavas, Ian Mosley, Brian Jelliman, Diz Minnitt)

Garden party held today
Invites call the debs to play
Social climbers polish ladders
Wayward sons again have fathers
Hello, dad!, Hello, dad!

Edgy eggs and queuing cumbers
Rudely wakened from their slumbers
Time has come again for slaughter
On the lawns by still Cam waters
It's a slaughter, it's a slaughter

Champagne corks are firing at the sun again
Swooping swallows chased by violins again
Straafed by Strauss they sulk in crumbling eaves again
Oh God not again!

Aperitifs consumed en masse display
Their owners on the grass
Couples loiter in the cloisters
Social leeches quoting Chaucer
Doctor's son a parson's daughter
Where why not and should they oughta

Please don't lie upon the grass
Unless accompanied by a fellow
May I be so bold as to perhaps suggest Othello
Punting on the Cam is jolly fun they say
Beagling on the downs, oh please do come they say
Rugger is the tops, a game for men they say
They say, good God they say

I'm punting
I'm beagling
I'm wining
Reclining
I'm rucking
I'm fucking
So welcome
It's a party

Angie chalks another blue
Mother smiles she did it too
Chitters chat and gossips lash
Posers pose, pressmen flash, flash
Smiles polluted with false charm
Locking on to Royal arms
Society columns now ensured
Returns to mingle with the crowds
Oh what a crowd

Oh, punting on the cam
Oh please do come they say
Beagling on the downs
Oh please so come they say
Garden party held today they say
Oh please do come
Oh please do come, they say


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  100 Nights   80 Days   80 Days [Acoustic][*]   A Collection   A Collection [*]   A few words for the dead   A Legacy   A Man of a Thousand Faces   A State of Mind   A Voice From The Past   Abraham Martin And John (acoustic)   Afraid of Sunlight   Afraid of Sunlight [Acoustic Demo][#]   Afraid of Sunlight [DVD]   Afraid of Sunrise   Afraid of Sunrise [Album Version]   Afraid of Sunrise [Album Version] [Version]   After Me   After Me [Album Version]   After Me [Live]   Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Album Version]   Alone Again In the Lap of Luxury [Album Version] [...   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Previously Unrel...   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Radio Edit]   An Accidental Man   Angelina   Angelina [DVD]   Answering Machine   Assassing   Assassing [Alternative Mix]   Assassing [Single Version]   Asylum Satellite #1   Beaujolais Day   Beaujolais Day [#]   Beautiful   Beautiful [Album Version]   Beautiful [Album Version] [Version]   Beautiful [DVD]   Beautiful [Radio Edit]   Beautiful [Unplugged Version]   Bell in the Sea, the   Berlin   Berlin [Live]   Between You & Me   Between You and Me   Between You and Me [DVD]   Between You and Me [Mark Kelly Remix]   Beyond You   Beyond You [#][Demo Version]   Bike (excerpt)   Bitter Suite   Blackbird   Blind Curve   Born to Run   Brave   Brave [Album Version]   Brave [Album Version] [Version]   Bridge   Bridge [DVD]   Bridge [Live]   Built-in Bastard Radar   Cannibal Surf Babe   Cannibal Surf Babe [#][Version]   Cannibal Surf Babe [Studio Outtake][#]   Cathedral Wall   Charting the Single   Charting the Single [Live]   Chelsea Monday   Chelsea Monday [Live]   Chelsea Monday [Manchester Square Demo]   Childhood End? [Live]   Childhood's End?   Childhoods End? [#]   Childhoods End? [Live]   Cinderella Search   Costa del Slough   Cover My Eyes   Cover My Eyes (Pain & Heaven)   Cover My Eyes (Pain And Heaven)   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Acoustic Version]...   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Live]   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Mike Stone Remix]   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Racket Club Acous...   Cover My Eyes [Acoustic Version]   Cover My Eyes [DVD]   Deserve   Don't Hurt Yourself   Dream Sequence [Previously Unreleased Demo Recorde...   Dreamy Street   Drilling Holes   Dry Land   Dry Land [Live]   Dry Land [LP Version]   Easter   Easter [DVD]   Easter [Live]   Emerald Lies   Emerald Lies [Demo Version]   Enlightened   Especially True   Essence   Estonia   Estonia [Acoustic Studio Version][*]   Estonia [DVD]   Estonia [DVD]   Estonia [Positive Light Remix][*]   Exile On Princes Street   Exile on Princes Street [#]   Exile On Princess Street   Faith   Faith [Live]   Fake Plastic Trees   Fantastic Place   Forgotten Sons   Freaks   Freaks [Live]   Fruit of the Wild Rose   Fugazi   Gabriel's Message   Garden Party [Edited Version][Edit]   Gaza   Gazpacho   Genie   Go   Go!   Going under   Going Under [Extended Version]   Goodbye To All That   Great Escape   Grendel   Grendel [Fair Deal Studios Version]   Half the World   Happiness Is The Road   Hard As Love   Hard as Love [Demo Version]   Hard as Love [Instrumental]   He Knows You Know   He Knows You Know [Album Version]   He Knows You Know [Manchester Square Demo]   Heart of Lothian   Heart of Lothian [DVD]   Heart of Lothian [Extended Mix]   Heart of Lothian [Full Version]   Heart of Lothian [Single Version]   Holidays In Eden   Hollow Man   Holloway Girl   Holloway Girl [Live]   Hooks In You   Hooks in You [Live]   Hooks in You [Meaty Mix]   Hope for the Future   Hotel Hobbies   Hotel Hobbies [DVD]   House   How Can It Hurt   How Can It Hurt [*]   How Will You Go   I Saw Three Ships   I Will Walk on Water   I Will Walk on Water [*]   I Will Walk on Water [Alternative Mix][#]   I Will Walk on Water [Alternative Mix][#][*]   Icon   If My Heart Were a Ball   If My Heart were a Ball it would Roll Uphill   Incommunicado   Incommunicado [Album Version]   Incommunicado [Alternate Version]   Incommunicado [Alternative Version][Alternate Take...   Incommunicado [DVD]   Incommunicado [Live]   Incubus   Incubus [Demo Version]   Incubus [DVD]   Insomnia (Cathedral Wall)   Interior Lulu   Jigsaw   Just for the Record   Kayleigh   Kayleigh (Demo Version)   Kayleigh [#]   Kayleigh [Alternative Mix]   Kayleigh [Bob Harris Session] [Live]   Kayleigh [DVD]   Kayleigh [Edit]   Kayleigh [Extended Version]   Kayleigh [Live]   Kayleigh [Single Edit]   Kayleigh [Single Edit] [Edit]   Kayleigh [Single Version]   Keyleigh   King   King [DVD]   King Of Sunset Town   King of Sunset Town [Live]   Lady Nina   Lady Nina [Extended Version]   Lady Nina [Single Edit]   Lavender   Lavender [#]   Lavender [DVD]   Lavender [Live]   Lavender [Single Version]   Live Forever   Living With The Big Lie   Living With the Big Lie [Album Version]   Living With the Big Lie [Album Version] [Version]   Living With the Big Lie [DVD]   Living With the Big Lie [Live]   Living With the Big Lie [Previously Unlreleased De...   Lords of the Backstage   Lords of the Backstage [#]   Mad   Made Again   Made Again [Album Version] [Version]   Made Again [Unplugged Version]   Man of A Thousand Faces   Man of a Thousand Faces [DVD]   Map of the World   Marbles 1   Marbles 2   Marbles 4   Marbles III   Margaret   Margaret [Edited Live][Live]   Margaret [Live]   Market Sqaure Heroes [Battle Priest Version]   Market Square Heroe[s [Edited Re-recorded Version]   Market Square Heroes   Market Square Heroes [Alternative Version][Alterna...   Market Square Heroes [Live]   Market Square Heroes [Re-Recorded Version][Alterna...   Memory of Water   Memory of Water [Big Beat Mix][*]   Mirages   Mirages (demo)   Mirages [#][Demo Version]   Montreal   Most Toys   Neverland   No One Can   No One Can [Album Version]   No One Can [Album Version] [Version]   No One Can [Album Version] [Version]   No One Can [Moles Club Demo][#]   No One Can [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   No Such Thing   Nothing Fills the Hole   Now She'll Never Know   Now Wash Your Hands   Number One   Ocean Cloud   Older Than Me   One Fine Day   Out of this World   Out of This World [Studio Outtake [#][Version]   Out of This World [Studio Outtake][#]   Paper Lies   Pour My Love   Power   Pseudo Silk Kimono   Pseudo Silk Kimono [#]   Punch and Judy   Punch and Judy [Demo Version]   Quartz   Real Tears For Sale   Rich   River [Live][Instrumental]   Runaway   Runaway [Acoustic]   Runaway [Bonus Track] [Live][*]   Runaway [Live][*]   Script For a Jester's Tear   Seasons End   See It Like A Baby   Separated Out   Shadows On The Barley   Shadows on the Barley [#]   She Chameleon   She Chameleon [Demo Version]   She'll Never Know   Sláinte Mhath   Sláinte Mhath   Sláinte Mhath   Slainte Mhath   Slainte Mhath [Live]   Somewhere Else   Somewhere Else [DVD]   Sounds That Can't Be Made   Space [Live]   Splintering heart   Splintering Heart [DVD]   Splintering Heart [Live at the Moles Club][*]   Splintering Heart [Live]   State of Mind   Story From A Thin Wall   Story From a Thin Wall [#]   Sugar Mice   Sugar Mice in the Rain [#]   Sunset Hill   Sunset Hill [#]   Sympathy   Sympathy [*]   Sympathy [Acosutic Version]   Sympathy [Acoustic Version][*]   Sympathy [Racket Club Acoustic Session]   Thank You, Whoever You Are   That Time of the Night   That Time of the Night [Live]   The Answering Machine   The Bell In The Sea   The Bridge   The Damage   The Erin Marbles   The Fruit of the Wild Rose   The Great Escape   The Great Escape [Album Version]   The Great Escape [Demo Version]   The Great Escape [Orchestral Version]   The Great Escape [Spiral Remake]   The Hollow Man   The Hollow Man [Acoustic]   The Hollow Man [Album Version]   The Hollow Man [Album Version] [Version]   The Invisible Man   The King Of Sunset Town   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