east indian princess

east indian princess lives in a western dream

happy like a child

her mother is a queen

you know she's safe as a cow on a calcutta street

this english way of life has got that other life beat

and reading magazines

she sits in straightbacked chairs

she's got a common welfare

she's got a queen that cares

she's got meat on her bones

she doesn't starve at least

not like the folks back home

not like the folks back east

yeah

but this indian is english

no matter how she tries

you know the sari and the sandals

it's just a bad disguise

she got a mark on her forehead

she got a stud in her nose

yeah

but this indian is english and i'm afraid it shows

'cause you can see her at wimpey's and on a movie queue line

her river's not the ganges

it is the serpentine

east indian princess

she got the western pain

she got the western mind

that girl has gone insane