What Happens When Her Beauty Fades? - Graham Parker

What happens when her beauty fades?

Is she a thing of the past?

Will she start hiding in the shade?

That’s what the media ask

They got their heads up their ass

Will she go for surgery they call it elective

It always looks weird never effective

Like fine monofilament holding up her skin

Attached to the sky above the rictus of a grin

Oh well is that what happens when her beauty fades

What happens when he creaks and groans?

Is that the time to give up?

Losing all kinds of muscle tones

And drinking food from a cup

He used to chew now he sups

Reeling from the image in the mirror on the wall

Deeply disgusted utterly appalled

Inhabited by some strange new host

A hobgoblin or his daddy’s ghost

Is that what happens when he creaks and groans

What happens when their beauty fades?

They just look inwards and find out what they’re made of

And it’s the good stuff you know it’s more than enough

Yeah that’s what happens when their beauty fades

Yeah that’s what happens when their beauty fades