long neck shipwrecked terrified swan lies in her mind left a burner on we crowd into the grand salon we re watching the mansion burn and i m not quite down with the way they roll they throw knives from their eyes at my parasol and i m only human after all go easy on me oh it s not like a country lane a day on the beach in spain i m courting a madness i cannot explain oh virginia we didn t know you had it in ya oh sweet virginia and i coughed this up in a sooty perfume out of my mouth like a feather plume and now here s one more crazy tune adversity rings my bell and the wound came loose with a terrrible stench the pain left a stain on my piano bench and i chased it with a monkey wrench cursing in my broken french it s not like a country lane a day on the beach in spain i m courting a madness i cannot explain oh virginia we didn t know you had it in ya oh sweet virginia and no you can t play that in this serious hall only apes wearing capes get the curtain call your invitation to the ball must be lost in the mail and i don t quite feel like working this crowd the rest has requested that i dumb it down they ll run your circus right out of town if you won t abide but it s suicide not like a country lane a day on the beach in spain i m courting a madness i cannot explain oh virginia we didn t know you had it in ya oh sweet virginia we didn t know you had it in ya oh sweet virginia