Sundial In The Shade - Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott

As she sat down, put up her feet

And she turned the telly on

She clearly wanted some revenge

For how badly day had gone

And nothing could be better

No end of day complete

Than watching fellow woman

Getting beat

So she smiled a knowing smile

As gradually, the plot

Took the damsel down

For everything she'd got

And nothing made her heart beat like

Another falling flat

That she was not the only one

Who married into that

What I want from life

Is not a rollercoaster dip

What I want from love

Is not a ampart to a skip

All I want is compliment occasionally made

For a life of pure simplicity, unlike these Sup's I trade

Till then, I am just that sundial

In the shade

See, mama went to prison

And left her feeling blue

Now, twenty good years later

She's in that prison too

A prison where the governors

In the armchair of despair

A prison where the only thought

Is 'I wish she wasn't there'

So she smiled a knowing smile

As gradually, he told

Took away her dignity

And offered her the road

So, with coat over pajamas

She headed into the night

Television never made no friends

But solitude just might

What I want from life

Is not a rollercoaster dip

What I want from love

Is not a ampart to a skip

All I want is compliment occasionally made

For a life of pure simplicity, unlike these Sup's I trade

Till then, I am just that sundial

In the shade

In the shade

Sundial in the shade

Ooh.

Oh...

Oh, oh...

Oh, oh...

Ooh...

Groom has just, too, made up

With the father of the bride

And the punch, I'm sure that's just too hard

For the bridesmaids to decide

Like the mints that fenced the logger breath

There's so much he could hide

It's a plastic bag or jellyfish

That's floating by your side

What I want from life

Is not a rollercoaster dip

What I want from love

Is not a ampart to a skip

In the shade...

Sundial...

All I want from life...

All I want from love...