This Is What It Looks Like

There is this strange idea

That "art" is a compliment

That the word "art" is a compliment

It's not, it's just a type of thing

A category like bacteria or knitwear

There is a strange idea

That love is an accomplishment

That "being in love" is an accomplishment

It's not, it's just something you decide to do

And then act accordingly and then that's it, there

And if I dress like a horse

And do the sound of a horse, and say 'hey I'm a horse'

I'd be a horse, right?

If I'm convincingly dressed like a horse

And if I marry you of course

It means "I love you", doesn't it?

Think so

'Cause that's what people doing love do

They say 'hey look I'm going to marry you'

Then they get married in an irreverent traditional-slash-not-traditional ceremony

That really reflects them as people

And occasionally it turns out that they are more traditional than you think

Which gives their guests an opportunity to be uppity about that sort of thing

And then they stand next to each other and try not to dress too similarly

Because that would make them insufferable

And they try to tell funny stories of stuff that happened to them

And it becomes weirdly competitive

Because each of them is used to telling twice as many

Which means they have to share...

Yeah! And people are like 'this is actually all getting a bit stressful

But I expect they'll iron it out, those two

Because they're young'... ish, I mean early thirties - that is still young right?

And they're married so they must need each other...

Need

Open brackets wobbly line over straight horizontal line meaning approximately equal to

Love

Close brackets. 'Cause

This is what it looks like

To feel what we should feel

This is what it looks like

This is what it looks like

To be real people

There is this strange idea

That judging a book by its cover

That is, assessing the nature of a book by

Consulting the visual information on the cover

Is something you should never do

And I think that that's ridiculous and misunderstands the

Basic technical function of a book's cover

There is a strange idea

That clothes maketh the man

Or in your case, I suppose, "woman"

But it's not quite that simple, there's also

Parties

And if you have a party

And invited everyone you knew

You would see that the biggest gift would be from me

This one?

No, the one behind it

But it's huge!

And inside would be

Napkin rings!

'Cause that's what you need, right?

Really good napkin rings for a dinner party

'Cause that's what dinner parties are about

Control, setting, the theatre of mystique...

I love them!

But...

I love them

Because

This is what it looks like

To have a fancy meal

This is what it looks like

This is what it looks like

To be real people

And singing a song like this is what it sounds like

To feel

It sounds like you feel a great deal!

Feel a great deal!

Why thank you

So this is the sort of level

Of convincingness we'll need to be at

To pass as a real couple?

You nailed it!

You nailed it!

You're too kind!

But what if they don't believe us?

What if we make a mistake?

Then we'll do it all so big they'll know we're

Definitely not fake, we'll give 'em

More face, more face, more aristocrat face

And walk and walk and walk, swishy lace

We know what they expect and we will do it just right

A couple of normal people

Normal people

Normalpeoplevestites

We'll make them gag on realness

And I'll never have to touch your penis, right?

Nope!

So I will

Wear the kind of thing I'd wear

I'll kiss the way a real person would kiss

I'll pick my skirts up thusly

And I'll walk like this

And when they see us walking by

In our camoflague doing good badinage

'Ha ha ha!'

They won't think 'who are they they're weird?'

They'll think: 'There's Lilian and her husband who's a

Fine upstanding

Horse!

Because I will be dressed like a horse

Phrrrh!

Or man, I can do man, that's fine. 'Cause

This is what it looks like

To feel, to feel, to feel

Lovelovelovelovelove quintuple

Times five as much

This is what it looks like

This is what it looks like

As a couple

Of real people