Miss Macbeth

[Intro]

All the children testified that Miss Macbeth had a fish bone slide

In her cobweb tresses

Her eyes were black as first foot coal

Clutched as white as chalk-dust

Her fingers sweated India-ink and poison-pen letters

There is a hungry hanging tree just below your bedroom window

You can hear her take a broom to beat out a tattoo on the ceiling

Her bloodless face ran red inside but was she really evil?

Was she only pantomime?

[Verse 1]

Now the chalk on the wall says that somebody saves

That somebody's face has just been washed off the pavement

Into a puzzle where petrol will be poisoned by rain

Miss Macbeth saw her reflection

As confetti bled it's colors down the drain

[Chorus 1]

And everyday she lives out another love song

It's a tearful lament of somebody done wrong

Well how can you miss what you've never possessed

Miss Macbeth

[Verse 2]

Well we all should have known when the children paraded

They portrayed her in their fairytales sprinkling deadly nightshade

And as they tormented her, she rose to the bait

Even a scapegoat must have someone to hate

[Chorus 2]

And everyday she lives out another love song

"You're up there enjoying yourself, and I know it's wrong"

Well how can you miss what you've never possessed

Miss Macbeth, Miss Macbeth

[Bridge]

Sometimes people are just what they appear to be

With no redemption at all

We try to walk upright when we can't even crawl

[Verse 3]

Miss Macbeth has a golliwog she chucks under the chin

And she whispers to it tenderly then sticks it on a pin

And It might be coincidence, but a boy down the lane

That she said "went white as he could do"

Then doubled over in pain

[Chorus 1]

And everyday she lives out another love song

It's a tearful lament of somebody done wrong

Well how can you miss what you've never possessed

Miss Macbeth, Miss Macbeth

Miss Macbeth, Miss Macbeth