Inside Out

An oyster shell itself is unassuming But look inside You'll find a pearl The man who otherwise is unpresuming May share the same blood As an earl Do not dismiss so of an off position She can be tenderhearted I've no doubt The world would be in awfully good condition If we could all live Inside out Though belladonna is my favourite flower I love its shape And its perfume You'd likely join the angels in an hour Should you ingest Its rather deadly bloom The man who seems a paragon of virtue May be a scoundrel Better versed in sin There may be many fewer who could hurt you If we could all live Outside in And everyone you'd meet On any London street If they be sweet or horrid It would show I would be overjoyed The hearty guide avoid If I could look at you And know And when I meet the man for whom I'm fated I'll know the one I've waited for is he For he will find these wealthy trappings overrated And he will see what no one sees in me A girl who reads the classics a(aaaaaaaa)nd the sonnets Who needs no folderol, it'll fill her cup A girl who thinks a bit beyond her bonnets He'll be of gentle heart And good renown He'll be the most admired man in town He'll take a world that's mostly upside down And turn it right side up If we lived inside out Or even outside in The change in how we see would be immense If we lived right side left Or even left side right Back side front Or front side back Would shed a better light Black might just be white Day might just be night If we knew the truth about each other on sight The world might just make sense