Porcelain Baked-Over Cast-Iron Wedding
Linda Perhacs Lyrics

It's a splendid high waisted white flavored day
Today is a great day, everyone is wearing high-waisted clothes and everything seems to have a white theme to it.

It's Pavlov with barking and feathers and pearls
People are being conditioned to behave a certain way, like Pavlov's dogs, with the added extravagance of barking, feathers, and pearls.

It's porcelain, oh, so bored, faces and curls
Everyone appears to have perfect, but lifeless faces and hair, and they seem incredibly uninterested and disengaged.

Buckles and gadgets and bell-bottom cools
People are wearing accessories and trendy clothes like bell-bottoms with buckles and gadgets.

Strutting and studding and preening by the rules
People are walking confidently around and showing off their accessories, while following societal expectations of how to look and behave.

Cinderella for a day
Someone is feeling like a princess or queen for a brief moment in time.

She's a queen in white angel lace
A woman feels like royalty in her white angelic-looking dress.

In a dream that she fabricates
It's all in her imagination, a fantasy that she created in her own mind.

From her last remaining green dollar bill
She can barely afford this dream on the small amount of money she has left over.

In a corrugated castle with so many fossilized remains
She is living in a dilapidated castle filled with ancient artifacts and remnants of the past.

Plaster baked in Saks special powder and villafranchian lace
The castle has been repaired with expensive materials, like Saks powder and lace from Villafranca.

Long shanks, lean shanks with mini-skirted brims
There are women with long, lean legs wearing mini-skirts and showing off their curves.

It's a harem in conquest with alabaster skins
The women have pale, flawless skin and are being treated like concubines in a harem by men vying for their attention.

Did I see you in Rome? I wintered abroad
The singer is asking if they met the person in Rome, as if it's a common place for affluent people to visit during the winter.

Silky and creamy, they're a peppered prime cause
The women are like prime cuts of meat, peppered and seasoned to perfection, with soft, smooth skin.

Of gallery flocking and rank hierarchy locking
The women attract a crowd of admirers, and social status plays a role in who gets to be with whom.

Arena behavior, one man to a hill
The men are competing like they're in an arena, scrambling for the attention of the women who are like royalty on their pedestal.

In turtle neck style with clean verbal kills
The men are wearing turtle necks, looking sharp and taking verbal jabs at each other as they try to impress the women.

Pass the champagne, will you please?
Someone is asking for some champagne, probably to keep the party going or to dull the boredom.

And let's get on with the next social squeeze
They're ready to move on to the next event or gathering that's on their social calendar.

Female flavored, custom tailored
The women are very feminine and they appear to have custom-fitted clothes.

The strutting ground's for the posh aggregates
The area where people are strutting around is for the wealthy and elite.

Spilling, dividing and multiplying
People are mingling, separating into groups, and making connections with others.

In a system of social rotating mates
The people are swapping partners in a structured and systematic way, following societal norms and expectations.

Ah, the hell with the rules
Finally, someone is expressing discontent with the rigid social rules and expectations.