Pulp - Inside Susan lyrics

Susan catches the bus into town at 10:
30am and sit's on the back seat
She looks at the man in front's
Head and thinks how his fat
Wrinkled neck looks like a large
Carrot sticking out from the
Collar of his shirt she adds
Up the numbers on
Her bus ticket to see if they
Make 21 - but they don't
Maybe she shouldn't bother going to school
At all then her friends
Will be in the yard with their
Arms folded on the chests
Pushing up their breasts to try
And make them look bigger
While the boys will be too
Busy playing football to notice

The bus is waiting on the
High Street when it suddenly
Begins to rain torrentially and it
Sounds like someone has
Emptied about a million packets of
Dried peas onto the roof
Of the bus "What if it just keeps raining?"
She thinks to herself "And it
Was just like being in
An aquarium except it was
All shoppers and office
Workers that were floating past the
Windows instead of fish"
She's still thinking about this as the bus
Goes past Caroline Lee's house
Where there was a party last
Week there were some
German exchange students over who
Were very immature they ended up jumping out
Of the bedroom window
One of them tried to get her to
Kiss him on the stairs -
So she kicked him later
She was sick because she'd
Drunk too much cider
Caroline was drunk as well
She was pretending that she
Was married to a tall boy in glasses
And she had to wear a
Polo neck for three days
Afterwards to cover up the
Lovebite on her neck

By now the bus is going
Past the markets outside is
A man who spends all day
Forcing felt-tip pens into
People's hands and then trying to
Make them pay for them
She used to work in a pet shop there
But she got sacked for talking to boys
When she was supposed to be working
She wasn't too bothered though: she hated
The smell of the rabbit's anyway

"Maybe this bus won't stop", she thinks
"and I'll stay on it
Until I'm old enough to go
Into pubs on my own
And it'll drive me to a town
Where people with black hair
Are treated specially
And I can make lots of money
From charging fat old men five pounds a
Time to look up my skirt
And they'll be queuing up to
Take me out to dinner"

I suppose you think she's just a
Silly girl with stupid ideas
But remember her in
Those days they talk about people with a
Fire within and all that stuff well
She had that alright - it's
Just that nobody dared to jump
Into her fire and
Risk being consumed instead they put her in a
Corner and let her heat up the room, warming
Their hands and backsides in front of her
And then slagging her off around town

No-one ever really got inside Susan, and
And she always ended up getting off the
Bus, at the terminus, and then walking home