A Plague On Other Boys - Belle & Sebastian

Hey Jane

Watching over you in Nebraska

The flood plains

Move over the farms, a disaster

The sun heats

Air until it swirls in tornados

But you move solemnly along

She says

You will be the consummate scholar

And she says

Do you know the world is your oyster?

The man says

Come and we will climb Mount Olympus

But all you want is to be there, in the presence of her smile

In the presence of her smile

In the presence of her smile

We are

Circling over clouds, we are tethered

Wondering

When you’re gonna hit bumpy weather

Your heart skips

Every time you detect her fragrance

She’s out there

Stinking up the late evening air with other boys

A plague on other boys

How this feeling does annoy you

A plague on other boys

They say

How can you know love, you’re a minor

And you say

What else could I know, this defines me

I start

Growing, I’m a mess, I’m defeated

My grade point average went to hell

Watching

Listening for a cultural movement

Get strong

Lenses to see into the future

March on

Washington if she’s in the vanguard

Base your

Politics on what she’s got written on a flag

What she’s written on a flag

What she’s written on a flag

My body’s mine and you’re a drag

What she’s written on a flag

What she’s written on a flag

People are good and walls are madness

She wrote it on a flag

Ten long years it took to shake the memory

The pain, humiliation

But then suddenly you realized

You’re free

To fraternize again

She got married, stayed in town and raised a home

See her at Thanksgiving

There’s a roped up part of every human heart

For the first one you love