Sunbeam shine, mousy girl on the end pew
You'd stay home, oh if only I let you
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie

Municipal pool, you're a junior life-saver
And your friends are all serious ravers
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
Reading Judy Blume
Oh but you came too soon

You're too tall, much too tall for a boyfriend
They run and hide from your buck tooth and split ends
Don't be scared like the books you've read
You're the heroine
Oh, you'll be doing fine

Wouldn't you like to get away?
Bestowing the memory of good and evil
On the ones you left behind
The heartless swine

And you love like nobody around you
How you love and a halo surrounds you
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
In the autumn cool
Say cheerio to school
Listen Dear, I've been watching you lately
If I said all these things, you would hate me
Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
At the church bazaar
I nearly went too far

Wouldn't you like to get away?
Kerouac's beckoning with open arms
And open fields of eucalyptus
Westward bound
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Give yourself up to the allure of
Catcher In The Rye
The future's swathed in Stars and Stripes

Wouldn't you like to get away?
Kerouac's beckoning with open arms
And open fields of eucalyptus
Westward bound
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Give yourself up to the allure of
Catcher In The Rye
The future's swathed in Stars and Stripes