Did She Scare All Your Friends Away

And Anna was a beauty in her youth
 She had long black hair and looked a lot more like you
 Than you think you do
 I knew her mother well
 Her lead light eyes were lovely coal smoke blue as well
 But I knew her father too
 And I viewed life like a bedroom
 Through a keyhole on a door
 While he saw it like a pantry through a window on a wall
 We never got on well, were never friends at all
 And I was just a barnacle that clung on through it all
 He was a small time politician
 Or a tele-prompter's charge trying to
 Bury a misdeed from way back when,
 And so he lined all of the
 Hacks up on the grass,
 Called them gentlemen and friends,
 Gave his dog whistle a blast
 And every face was a mask,
 What is anybody doing who ain't pretending?
 What is anybody doing,
 Why would he frighten off his friends
 With something useless as the truth?
 Anna was a beauty in her youth
 Did she scare all your friends away?
 Did she frighten all your friends away?
 Did she scare all of your friends away?
 And Anna was a beauty in her youth
 She had some fine boys on her trail, like the tailor's son
 Who scaled the ranks of
 Suits and all he touched turned into loot
 I knew his kind very well
 And when the doric columns cracked
 It tore the shirt right off his back
 So they sold him down the river before pocketing the cash
 He weren't so lucky then
 But it didn't bother Anna,
 She had boys on tap
 And Jack was a probono defence lawyer
 At a firm called Young and Black,
 He'd been made a junior partner
 And shown how to work a rort
 Making charitable donations to
 Salvation Army Corps and Veterans Without Wheelchairs
 And the Widows Of The Wars
 He was a Liberating Angel with a
 Clothes Peg on his nose,
 But he swooped a little low one time
 And crashed into some locals who
 Beat seven shades of shame through him
 Then levied heavy taxes of their own
 And said necessity is nine tenths of surgery
 He owed his face's health,
 And to watch them very carefully
 'Cause this is where the equal
 Distribution of wealth is going to
 Anna was a beauty in her youth
 Did she scare all your friends away?
 Did she frighten all your friends away?
 Did she scare all of your friends away?
 And Anna was a beauty in her youth
 It was at the garden party
 Where we first were introduced
 By her father who'd retired
 Into a well of sweet vermouth
 But I knew what was coming next
 While he'd been winning plaudits for his ornithology
 I'd been selling Winnebagos to less heeled retirees
 It had not been going well
 I moved RV's on hire-purchase
 When I knew I should have leased
 And my investors all went bankrupt
 So I couldn't supply
 And I could not meet repayments
 Even if demand increased,
 I wished they'd pay me what they owed me
 Then all fuck off like good pensioners
 And die and have a holiday at least
 Then he said "money won't bring happiness"
 And I very nearly cried
 But he didn't venture further, no one saying that ever tries,
 I took a hard slug on my drink
 And Anna watched me while I melted
 Like an ice cube in the desert of her shade
 And if she smiled at you there'd be nothing you
 Wouldn't do 'cause women made like Anna
 Are born coasting on
 The admiration, which Anna made the most of,
 She turned one against the other, all friends
 At one time or other yet they
 Set upon themselves
 And cleared the way from me to her
 You and I were happy then
 And happy's no defence
 But if it's any consolation
 I expected someone else
 That would be her masterstroke
 And I am standing here today as proff
 Anna was a beauty in her youth
 Did she scare all your friends away?
 Did she frighten all your friends away?
 Did she scare all of your friends away?