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
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
Its a slaughter, its 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
Doctors son a parsons daughter
Where why not and should they oughta

Please dont 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

Im punting
Im beagling
Im wining
Reclining
Im rucking
Im fucking
So welcome
Its 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

Marillion are a British Rock group formed in Aylesbury in 1979, whose 13 album career is generally regarded as comprising two eras, delineated by the departure of frontman Fish and arrival of Steve Hogarth in 1988. The core lineup of Steve Rothery (the only original member), Pete Trewavas, Mark Kelly and Ian Mosley has been unchanged since 1984.