Vacaville

Debbie Sang with Rodney and the new brunettes
Iconic combinations gave them fashion not in fashion yet
Across the narrow courtyard you could almost hear the neighbors complain
Vincent crowed that Desmond was a Bowie fan
Took Judy from the Mudd Club and dressed her up in marzipan
Fortune favors daring but the rising tides encourage distain
What’s your favorite band and who taught you to kiss that way?
We’re running out of days in Vacaville and we can’t stay
Shelia made a Pantone palette wardrobe guide
A handful of Excedrin helped her ring the days of Factsheet Five
A chapter spent in Paris that she’d reference almost daily for years
Gordon saved his photographs of Dolly Read
In neatly labeled notebooks with the covers wrapped in Harris Tweed
With Girl One and the Grease Guns playing softly sabotaging with tears
What’s your favorite band and who taught you to kiss that way?
We’re running out of days in Vacaville and we can’t stay
Echo the names from behind us
Dodging the days that remind us
These are the days that would find us
Lost at sea and drifting aimlessly
A minor move when Sharon signed to Cherry Red
Twee pop relic wordsmiths selling fables stuck inside our heads
A band of woolly mammoths where we dubbed our own extinction a treat
Waking up, I found myself in Arkansas
A Tuesday night in Reno with the Vegas Beat at Jabberjaw
Your head was tilted slightly and the earth had shifted under my feet
What’s your favorite band and who taught you to kiss that way?
We’re running out of days in Vacaville and we can’t stay
What’s your favorite band and who taught you to kiss that way?
We’re running out of days in Vacaville and we can’t stay