Table Manners from Beauty by Patrick Dineen

Table Manners

You really should consider
Who you have for dinner
And you really should consider
Who you have for toast and tea
or before you know it
the marmalade is runny
And your favourite pudding
Is drifting out to sea

And then the cuckoo
Poured a cup of tea

You must be more discerning
When you ask someone for dinner
You should be more discerning
When you ask someone for tea
Or before your know it
You’ve lost your icing sugar
And the salt and the pepper
Have lost their dignity

And then the cuckoo says
Comes sit with me
And then he pours
Another G and T

Waiting at the window
On a beautiful summer’s day
Dreaming at the window
And then I saw
The dishes and the silver spoon
running away
running away

I’m only trying to help you
With your table manners
I’m only trying to show you
how things can be
Cos the world is filled with after dinner speakers
Who offer crumbs of comfort
when you are having tea

and the cuckoo goes cuckoo
cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo
cuckoo
cuckoo
cuckoo
cuckoo
cuckoo


Oh you want to be more careful
When you’re handing out the truffles
And you want to take it easy
When you’re buttering that roll
Because before you know it
The crockery is battered
And your after dinner’s just a toad a hole
And then the cuckoo
Steals away your soul
But not before he’s had your buttered roll
And then the cuckoo
Steals away your soul
But not before he’s had your buttered roll

• Soundtrack
• dark cabaret
• electronic
• theatrical
• Liverpool