Perfectly Marvellous

Cliff if, if you don't mind, I would like to withdraw the question

'Cause, well, really it's none of mine business

I think people are people

I really do, Cliff, don't you?

I don't think they should have to explain a thing

For example, if I paint my fingernails green

And well, it happens that I do paint them green

If someone should ask me why

I say, "I think it's pretty"

"I think it's pretty," I reply

So, if anyone should ask about you and me one day

You've two alternatives

You can either say, "Oh yes, we're living in delicious sin"

Or you can simply tell them the truth and say

"I met this perfectly marvellous girl

In this perfectly wonderful place

As I lifted a glass to the start of a marvellous year

Before I knew it, she called on the phone, inviting

Next moment, I was no longer alone

But sat reciting some perfectly beautiful verse

In my charming American style

How I dazzled her senses is truly no less than a crime, yes!

I've this perfectly marvellous girl in my perfectly beautiful room

And we're living together, and having a marvellous time!

(Okay, uhm, Sally, I'm afraid it wouldn't work)

(You're much too distracting)

Distracting? No, inspiring!

She tells me

Perfectly marvellous tales of her thrillingly scandalous life

Which I'll probably use as a chapter or two in my book

And since my stay in Berlin was to force a creation

What luck to fall on a fabulous source of stimulation

And perfectly marvellous too is her perfect agreement to be

Just as still as a mouse while I'm giving my novel a whirl, yes!

I have a highly agreeable life in my perfectly beautiful room

With my nearly invisible, perfectly marvellous girl

(Okay, Sally, I just can't afford to it)

(Do you have any money?)

Yes, six marks!

(Oh god!)

No, oh, Cliff, Cliff, please just for a night or two, please

I met this truly remarkable girl in this really incredible town

And she skillfully managed to talk her way into my room (oh, Cliff!)

I have a terrible feeling I said a dumb thing

Besides, I've only got one narrow bed

(We'll think of something)