Clutching Your Pearls

Now you know what I meant when I wrote myself a letter And I know what it said though the real thing never came Bless my little soul It's an old game On the shore lay a physician From the old days Down with the ship in the Fifties Washed up with the waves She asks what is life If not a string of different pains Caught you, clutching your pearls Let your arms unfurl, I know it's a I know it's a trick, Come back to the Come back to the world I was shocked by a bloodcurdling scream, in the distance I was in such a state, I was in need of assistance So now you know what it's like when you get back To your warm house And the poison tucked up your sleeve didn't fall out Spill it in your tea Hey! Hey! Hey! And you called out Caught you, clutching your pearls Let those arms unfurl, (I know it's a) I know it's a trick, (Come back to the) Come back to the world