Story Behind The Song

Ceci wrote this on a New Orleans trolley, seeing the private schoolgirls going by in their fancy cars.

Song Description

An acerbic comment on society's indulgence of the pwerful and the beautiful, no matter how useless they might be, and how conformity might create them.

Lyrics

(miss suzy had a baby
she named him tiny tim
she put him in a bathtub
to see if he could swim
he drank up all the water
he ate up all the soap
he tried to eat the bathtub
but it wouldn't go down his throat)

From the streetcar I saw you
You, the immortal schoolgirl
Vaccinated from pain
It was plaid-skirt heaven

Inside that shiny brick building
You learned to be important
The air was conditioned
but not as much as your mind
Your mind

Your boyfriend comes to get you
in his brand new sportscar
You take off in a cloud of smoke
Your friends are full of envy

You look into the mirror
to see if your face is on straight
Your hair is conditioned but
not as much as your mind
Your mind
Ooh, your mind

(candy on a stick
it makes me sick
it makes my heart go two, four, six
here she comes in a baby blue dress
she can do anything but she can't do this
close your eyes and count to ten
if you mess up, start over again
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten)