Iolanthe

Your mother used to take the cure

She kept plastic on the furniture in the living room

You used to tell your friends

If you never saw that place again it's be too soon

But your college beau

Didn't seem so bad

So you brought him home

To Mom and Dad

Like you're supposed to do

But he wouldn't account for himself

And he got along better

With the hired help

Than he did with you.

No big loss, I don't suppose

Brush it away like a fly off a rose

We're all bound to miss a time or two Iolanthe

Your father always held his ground

He never liked you hanging round with the lesser kind

He suffered not the weak

And he was never loath to speak his twisted mind.

He liked to watch an evening pass

Clinking the ice in his bourbon glass while you played your scales

With eyes that burned right through

He would say he always knew you were bound to fail.

Shake it off and let it go

Brush it away til the light it shows

We can't help what came before

Iolanthe

Well who's that standing there?

Watcha been doing lately?

Your clothes not long outta style

You gave us all quite a scare

But the years were hardly wasted

Only missing for a while

Don't sweat the losses, let em go

Toss em all out where the tall grass grows

We're all bound to get our share

Iolanthe