Susan Lyrics

Susan finished school at sixteen wants to be a secretary
Two years later she's got nowhere ends up in a factory
Making matches it's so boring she gets sad and so depressed
Hears her doctor smugly tell her 'Take these pills and get some rest'

Plus she takes it one stage further parents rescue her in time
Smile and tell her 'When you're married everything will be just fine'
She recovers and gets married further shuts the closing door
Though he says 'I really love you' she feels worse off than before

Nine months later she's a mother to a bouncing baby boy
'Oh how super' say her parents but for her there is no joy
Words like 'Mummy' don't mean nothing it's all she hears from nine 'til five
All alone at number 19 every single day she dies

Nineteen years of hollow cliches now she wants to end it all
Bored to death from doing nothing family drives her up the wall
Swinging Susan hanged herself she couldn't live her pointless life
He comes home to see through tears the rigid corpse that was his wife

The life and time of Susan strange ended in that tragic way
With the money from insurance the family went on holiday
Nothing left but rotting flowers on an unnattended grave
The epitaph has faded badly no-one reads it anyway