Time Stands Still in the Shower

Time stands still in the shower.

It could be half an hour.

The perfect place to dream, in the water and the steam.

When the world is fast and shrill

In the shower, time stands still.

Oh, songs sound great in the shower.

What a voice! What tone! What power!

The tiles just love to ring when you open up and sing:

La la la la.

La la la la.

La la la la.

I should cut a record. (Or “I could sing an opera”)

Round about seven thirty,

Even if I’m barely dirty,

Streaming from that spout

Comes the stuff that cools me out.

All my cares run off like water down a hill.

In the shower

For a minute or an hour

Time stands still.

(Optional coda:

You step into that tub

And, welcome to the club,

You’re just another dopey, drippy Jack or Jill.

In the shower

For a minute or an hour

Time stands still.)