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The Governor's Mansion

from Save the Plant! by The Size Queens

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THE GOVERNOR’S MANSION

They say they’ll give you a chance, but only one chance
They say you’ll give you a chance
The second chance is a warning
In this restaurant, three strikes and you’re out
You’re out
It’s a three-strike restaurant
And you’re out

And they want you to wash the table
They want you to keep your hygiene up
They want you to smell like the lilacs in the bathroom
The garden in the can
Oh they want you to smell like the lilacs in the spray can

And they might just keep you
If you can make the powerful man happy
They might just keep you around for the season

But the season is short; it’s less than a week
They don’t want to pay you minimum wage
So you have to wear flipflops on your feet
And they use you to wipe down the tables and clear the plates
You feel like you’re working at the Virginia governor’s estate
And they want you to wash the tables and smell like lilacs from the can
They want to you wash the tables and serve the powerful man

Because the powerful man,
He only checks in for a week
The high-minded man with his Thunderbird degree
And he only comes for a week
And he wants it perfect the whole time
He’s changed the seasons
He has dominion over time

Your sister joined a cult in the 1960’s and she died
When you were born the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s were far behind
And the only thing left to do was to get a job in an office tower
But they decided it was too much to pay you insurance or minimum wage for the hour
Now you’re working in a restaurant where you have to smell like a canned flower

So they gave you a job in a restaurant open for less than a week
They gave you a job serving the governors
To serve all the governors
But you should smell like lilacs in the can
And you should respond to their demands
Or three strikes and you’re out
And you end up in an industrial prison
Making bathroom sprays
Til the end of your days
Or until you’ve changed your ways
They locked you in the can
Puttin lilacs in a can

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from Save the Plant!, released March 20, 2014

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THE SIZE QUEENS 2005-2017
After 12 years, 8 records and 1 EP, the loose-knit group of artists and activists, musicians and poets quietly and amicably disbanded and the art rock experiment that was The Size Queens was completed.

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