Lloyd Cole - Women's Studies lyrics

I'm drinking tea Taking unpaid leave from my Women's Studies, uh huh Out here in the meadow With A People's History of America I smoke a pipe to Johnny 99 Bipartisan Consensus I'm keeping it dry, nothing flighty On orders from my therapist We were young and we were stupid And it was fine while it lasted To complete my education I had to wake up in your bathtub Oh, those Monday morning quarters I grew so accustomed to I've seen enough I've made my recommendations My work here is finished Your powers of reduction Remain strangely undiminished Yes you, in your hushed tones And your campus etiquette If we cannot speak of nothing Then nothing should keep her mouth shut We were young and we were stupid And it was fine while it lasted Yes, I wrote my dissertation On the barstools of your neighbourhood But the bars were filled with lawyers Filing action two by two Through the valley of the women That I am not married to Are these riches here the spoils of my retreat? These rented rooms and bachelor's degree It's a Penguin Cla**ic scene Broken spine and faded green Trying to relocate my arms Around a memory I'm drinking tea Taking unpaid leave from my Women's Studies, uh huh Hiding up here in the library With The Great Wall Of China If Josef K was from Edinburgh And Fast Product from Prague That could have been kind of funny Or maybe not that funny at all We were young and we were stupid And it was fine while it lasted To complete my education I had to wake up in your bathtub With the shadows of the women That I am not married to