design for living - flanders & swann lyrics
flanders: when we started making money,
swann: when we started making friends,
both: we found a home as soon as we were able to.
flanders: we bought this bijou residence for about a
thousand more,
than the house our little house was once the stable to.
swann: with charm…
flanders: colour values…
swann: wit…
flanders: and structural alteration,
both: now designed for graceful living,
it has quite a reputation.
we’re terribly house and garden,
at number seven-b.
we live in a most amusing muse,
ever so very contemporary.
we’re terribly house and garden,
the money that one spends.
to make a place that won’t disgrace,
our house and garden friends.
we’ve planned an uninhibited interior decor,
swann: curtains made of straw…
flanders: we’ve wallpapered the floor…
both: we don’t know if we like it, but at least we can
be sure,
there’s no place like home sweet home.
it’s fearfully maison jardin,
at number seven-b.
we’ve rediscovered the chandelier,
tres tres very contemporary.
we’re terribly house and garden,
now at last we’ve got the chance.
swann: the garden’s full of furniture…
flanders: and the house is full of plants!
both: it doesn’t make for comfort,
but it simply has to be.
’cause we’re ever so terribly up-to-date,
contemp-or-ar-or-y!
flanders: have you a home that cries out to your every
visitor,
“here lives someone who is exciting to know”?
no?
well, why not… collect those little metal bottle-
tops, and nail them upside-down to the floor? this will
give the sensation… of walking… on little metal
bottle-tops turned upside-down.
why not… get hold of an ordinary northumbrian
spokeshaver’s coracle? paint it in contrasting stripes
of, say, telephone black and white white, and hang it
up in the hall for a guitar tidy for parties.
why not… drop in one evening for a mess of pottage?
our speciality, just aubergine and carnation petals.
with a six-shilling bottle of mielle du pap, a feast
fit for a king.
i’m delirious about our new cooker fitment with the
eye-level grille. this means that without my having to
bend down, the hot fat can squirt straight into my
eyes!
both: we’re frightfully house and garden,
at number seven-b,
the walls are patterned with shrunken heads,
ever so very contemporary.
swann: our boudoir on the open plan has been a huge
success…
flanders: though everywhere’s so open, there’s nowhere
safe to dress!
both: with little screens, and bottle lamps,
and motifs here and there.
swann: mobiles in the air…
flanders: ivy everywhere!
both: you mustn’t be surprised to meet a cactus on the
stair,
but we call it home sweet home.
we’re terribly house and garden,
as i think we’ve said before.
but though seven-b is madly gay,
it wouldn’t do for every day,
we actually live in seven-a,
in the house next door!
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