She listens to the radio
but they don’t play the kind of songs she likes
The playlist is prearranged
and filled with songs picked by marketing guys
Instead she’d settle for a living room friends and guitars
Instead of synth hooks and beat mash up cooks
She’d settle for tapes bootlegged in bars

He goes to modern art galleries
but don’t understand what they promote
An abattoir of modern life
on canvass don’t give him no hope
Instead he’d settle
for a painting of mountains in the snow
Instead of intelligent strokes and violent jokes he’d settle for a photo of Marilyn Monroe

They met in the theatre
and marvelled at all the people acting insane
Held hands in the interval
and kissed later on standing in the rain
Instead of one night they’re planning a future and use affectionate names
Instead of dropping out they’re buying a house and forgetting about when the world was insane