Song Description

This song elaborates on secret lives that many of us lead or want to lead, with particular focus on sexual eccentricities.

Lyrics

Good Mademoiselle Richard
Respected here and abroad
A faithful wife and a public servant
[She] serves something different in her evening job
She?s dressed in leather and chains
She forces whimpers and shouts
She?d sooner jump off the Eiffel Tower
Than let her secret get out

And how about Senator Norm
He stands for moral reform
Between his family and his civic duties,
You?ll catch him sneakin? ?round the coed dorms
He?s got a spot on the floor
Perched by a crack in the door
He begs the press not to print the story ?
They caught him by the baths on all fours

Our secret lives, no different from the others
Our plain disguise will keep us under cover
Everybody?s frightened by what others might say
Just like them, we lock our secrets away

How about Marvin Lincoln
You never know what he?s thinkin?
He wears a tie and a button-down
But at home he?s scrubbin? curtains in his evening gown
He?ll scrub in front of the mirror
And stuff his purple brassier
Polish the bath with his lipstick on
The bank is always wondering why he?s gone so long

We keep our secrets inside
But that?s what keeps us, it keeps us alive
Too busy locking doors and turning the lights down
Nobody ever sees me in my shadow disguise
I?ve got a marvelous view
Of what my neighbors are up to
Profile the three, one at a time
I?d tell you how I know, but that?s a secret of mine?