Did She Scare All Your Friends Away

Did She Scare All Your Friends Away - Gareth Liddiard

And Anna was a beauty in her youth

She had long black hair and looked a lot more like you

Than you think you do

I knew her mother well

Her lead light eyes were lovely coal smoke blue as well

But I knew her father too

And I viewed life like a bedroom

Through a keyhole on a door

While he saw it like a pantry through a window on a wall

We never got on well were never friends at all

And I was just a barnacle that clung on through it all

He was a small time politician

Or a tele prompter's charge trying to

Bury a misdeed from way back when

And so he lined all of the

Hacks up on the grass

Called them gentlemen and friends

Gave his dog whistle a blast

And every face was a mask

What is anybody doing who ain't pretending

What is anybody doing

Why would he frighten off his friends

With something useless as the truth

Anna was a beauty in her youth

And hey

Did she scare all of your

All of your friends away

And hey

Did she scare all of your

All of your friends away

And hey

Did she scare all of your

All of your friends away

And Anna was a beauty in her youth

She had some fine boys on her trail like the tailor's son

Who scaled the ranks of

Suits and all he touched turned into loot

But I

I knew his kind very well

And when the doric columns cracked

It tore the shirt right off his back

So they sold him down the river before pocketing the cash

He weren't so lucky then

But it didn't bother Anna

She had boys on tap

And Jack was a probono defense lawyer

At a firm called Young and Black

He'd been made a junior partner

And shown how to work a rort

Making charitable donations to

Salvation Army Corps and Veterans Without Wheelchairs

And the Widows Of The Wars

He was a Liberating Angel with a

Clothes Peg on his nose

But he swooped a little low one time

And crashed into some locals who

Beat seven shades of shame through him

Then levied heavy taxes of their own

And said necessity is nine tenths of surgery

He owed his face's health

And to watch them very carefully

'Cause this is where the equal

Distribution of wealth is going to

Anna was a beauty in her youth

Hey

Did she scare all your

All your friends away

Hey

Did she frighten all your

All your friends away

Hey

Did she scare all of your

All your friends away

And Anna was a beauty in her youth

It was at the garden party

Where we first were introduced

By her father who'd retired

Into a well of sweet vermouth

But I knew what was coming next

While he'd been winning plaudits for his ornithology

I'd been selling Winnebagos to less heeled retirees

It had not been going well

I moved RV's on hire purchase

When I knew I should have leased

And my investors all went bankrupt

So I couldn't supply

And I could not meet repayments

Even if demand increased

I wished they'd pay me what they owed me

Then all f**k off like good pensioners

And die and have a holiday at least

Then he said "Money won't bring happiness"

And I very nearly cried

But he didn't venture further no one saying that ever tries

I took a hard slug on my drink

And Anna watched me while I melted

Like an ice cube in the desert of her shade

And if she smiled at you there'd be nothing you

Wouldn't do 'cause women made like Anna

Are born coasting on

The admiration which Anna made the most of

She turned one against the other all friends

At one time or other yet they

Set upon themselves

And cleared the way from me to her

You and I were happy then

And happy's no defence

But if it's any consolation

I expected someone else

That would be her masterstroke

And I am standing here today as proff

Anna was a beauty in her youth

Hey

Did she scare all of your

All your friends away

Hey

Did she frighten all your

All your friends away

Hey

Did she scare all of your

All your friends away

Hey

Did she frighten all your

All your friends away