Wedding Guest (Fled the Wedding) Lyrics

I heard a rumor she bought a long white gown

When we all knew her, she'd have shut that down

A three-ring circus to surround her clown

My card came late, I resigned myself to fate

I was uncomfortably an honored guest

In doubt whether to be more there or less

No clue whether the groom knew, I confess

By luck, just then, the sky whipped out its pen

And wrote its verdict on the world

In transparent silver pearls

But we couldn't read a word, so we just fled

In the gazebo where we huddled close

We caught the bride with something up her nose

And a hand wriggling in her pantyhose

In that hushed crowd our breathing seemed so loud

Until the orchestra of leaves

Rose to the eaves up with the breeze

She sneezed into her sleeve and hit her head

We fled the wedding

She used to pet me when I had my hair

We used each other thinking we had spares

It takes some time to find life isn't fair

By then it's too late, one resigns oneself to fate

I caught a ride home with a long-lost friend

We'd never thought those days were going to end

Return to sender what was never sent

The clubs, the cliques, collapsed like pickup sticks

All the sidekicks gradually

Kicked away into the sea

We dragged our clams back stumbling into bed

Wishing for oysters instead

And weddings, remembering how we fled

We fled the wedding

We fled the wedding