Marty Rudnick w/ Agony Aunts - September A-Side: Marty Rudnick w/ Agony Aunts - Erica The Beautiful

From across the skies so spacious

With your flirtatious eyes

To see the purple majesties

You did gladly fly

You came abroad, a pilgrim, no interest in dukes or earls

But you loved the Kinks and Queen and four lads who shook the world

Across the sea you came

I never knew your name, I called you:

Erica The Beautiful

From sea to shining sea

Forevermore be dutiful

To Erica The Beautiful

In a cafe up in Camden I took your hand in mine

For pastries plain or fruited, an undisputed sign

Two travelcards zones one through zed

Routemasters turning the town red

In paradise as long as I can gaze at you

Until the sun sets over Waterloo

In your dress of white and scarlet, under the star-lit blue

You declared your independence in those transcendent hues

To the alabaster city under the halcyon sky

You shed your grace and glamour, the amber wave’s goodbye

Back to the states you went

Across the continents

I call for...