Belle & Sebastian - Expectations

Expectations

Monday morning wake up knowing that
You’ve got to go to school
Tell your mum what to expect
She says its right out of the blue
Do you want to work in debenham’s
Cause that’s what they expect
Start in lingerie, and Doris is your supervisor

And the head said that you always were a queer on
From the start
For careers you say you want to be remembered for
Your art
Your obsessions get you known throughout the
School for being strange
Making lifesize models of the
Velvet underground in clay

In the queue for lunch they take the piss
You’ve got no appetite
And the rumour is you never go with boys and you
Are tight
So they jab you with a fork
You drop the tray and go berserk
While your cleaning up the mess the teachers
Looking up your skirt

You’ve been used, youre confused
Write a song, I’ll sin galong
Are you calm? Settle down
Soon you will know that you are sane
You re on top of the world again

Monday morning wake up knowing that you ve
Got to go to school
Mum said she had little choice when she was
Young
So why should you?
Do you want to work in C&A, cause that s what
They expect
Move to ladieswear and take a feel off Joe
The Storeman

Tell Veronica the secrets of the boy you
Never kissed
She s got everything to gain cause she s a fat
Girl with a lisp
She sticks up for you when you get aggravation
From the snobs
Cause you can’t afford a blazer and you’re
always waring clogs

At the interval you lock yourself away
Inside a room
Head of English gets you asks you
What the hell do you think you re doing?
Do you think you re better than the other kids?
Well get outside
You ve got permission
But you ve got to make the bastard think he’s
right