The Magnetic Fields, Shirley Simms - The Horrible Party lyrics

Take me away from this horrible party
And let me get home to Mother
Don't make me stay at this horrible party
And I'll never go to another

People are shedding their inhibitions
And their clothes
Many are sprawled on divans
Painting each other's toes
Everyone seems to be stuffing
Something up his nose
A player piano is tinkling "Anything
Goes" again and again

Deliver me from this horrible party
And I will give you some money
Why, why are we at this horrible party?
And I don't see what's so funny

Here in the darkness known
Hitherto only to moles


People are using the slang they
Picked up from the proles
Everyone's finding new uses for
Muffs and mink stoles
And "Anything Goes" goes again
How they know all the roles

Some plastic surgeon's done horrible
Things to poor Jane
Making her terrifically popular
Men are insane "Anything goes" is the motto
And endless refrain my dear
It was heaven until they ran out of champagne