The Divine Comedy - I've Been to a Marvellous Party lyrics

I must say it's the most
Extraordinary experience not everybody
I suppose it's something to do with the
Sun and all that but
I wouldn't understand myself
Really and I'm not sure it's even legal

You know quite for no reason I'm here for
The season and high as a kite
Living in error with Maud at Cap
Ferrar which couldn't be right
Everyone's here and frightfully gay nobody
Cares what people say
Though the Riviera seems really much queerer
Than Rome at it's height
On Wednesday night I went
To a marvellous party
With Nunu and Nada and Nell
It was in the fresh air and we went as we
Were and we stayed as we were which was hell
Poor Grace started singing at midnight and
She didn't stop singing til four
We knew the excitement was
Bound to begin when
Laura got blind on Dubonnet and Gin
And scratched her veneer with a Cartier pin
- I couldn't have liked it more!

I couldn't have liked it more

I've been to a marvellous party
We played a wonderful game
Maureen disappeared and came back
In a beard and
We all had to guess at her name
Cecil arrived wearing armour
Some shells and a black feather boa
Poor Millicent wore a surrealist comb
Made of bit's of
Mosaic from St Peters in Rome but the weight
Was so great that she had to go home
- well I couldn't have liked it more

I've been to a marvellous party i
Must say the fun was intense
We all had to do what the people we
Knew might be doing 100 years hence
We talked about growing old gracefully and
Elsie who's 74 said a)
It's a question of being sincere
And b) if you're supple
You've got nothing to fear then
She swung upside down from
A chandelier - and I couldn't
Have liked it more

It was the most fabulous excitement
I've never seen such a carry
On obviously it couldn't happen
Anywhere else but on the Riviera
It was most peculiar
You know people's behaviour away
From Belgravia would
Make you aghast so much variety
Watching society scampering past… You know if
You had any mind at all
Gibbons divine 'Decline and Fall' well it
Sounds pretty flimsy no more
Than a whimsy by way of
Contrast on Wednesday last

I went to a marvellous party
We didn't sit down til
Ten y'know young Bobby Carr did a stunt at
The bar with a lot of
Extraordinary men and then
Freda arrived with a turtle
Which shattered us all
To the core and then the
Duchess passed out at a quarter to three and
Suddenly Cyril cried 'fiddle-de-de'
And he ripped off his trousers
And jumped in the
Sea - I couldn't have liked it more

I've been to a marvellous party
- Elise made an entrance
With May you'd never have
Guessed from her fisherman's
Vest that her bust had been
Whittled away poor Lulu
Got fried on chianti and talked about esprit
De corps louise made a couple
Of passes at Gus
And Freddy who hates any kind of a fuss
Did half the big apple and
Twisted his truss -
HA HA! I couldn't have liked it more!