Puritans - The Happy Family

Please don’t let’s talk about what is and what is not the case

If I got tired of you I’d tell you to your face

The way you pick your words when you’re describing me

It seems you’re far outside my personality

I have no cause to be dissatisfied with you

So I can’t understand what cure I’m stretching to

We once surveyed our prospects, now we reminisce

Would I have come if I’d anticipated this?

O take these puritans away!

Open the window dear I need a breath of air

The sky is cloudless and there’s no disorder there

Pull on some clothes and we’ll consider what to do

To fill the space before we’re back here in this room

Away!

We’ll walk the districts and we’ll watch the passers-by

All these familiar scenes make difference seem a lie

If we compose ourselves and try to look our best

We might at last provoke each other’s interest

When we pass other couples walking on the street

Or in a restaurant study faces as we eat

We set to wondering in great perplexity

The secret they possess that’s barred from you and me

O take these puritans away!