Punch And Judy Lyrics
Mid-life crisis, half your life gone and nothing to show. A shrew for a wife who does nothing but nag. It started off fine, lots of walks in the park, sex and love but what went wrong? There's one way to solve the problem, get rid of his wife and everything will sort itself out.
I remember listening to this when I was about 14 and thinking that all marriages must be like this! Well I got to 40 and while some bits have a small ring of truth, life's what you make it. You make bad choices with your partner ( pick beauty over brains ) and they might come true! LOL!
Its about the famous puppet show about Punch and his wife Judy. I believe the theme in this song is about divorce as mentioned in the song. Excellent Marillion song with a very catchy chorus. Fish-era Marillion really Rocked !!!!
I think it's to do with being trapped in a loveless marriage as he wishes for divorce but decides to kill judy
It's the story of a man that soon discovers marriage, 2.4 children etc wasn't quite what it said in the brochure.... great song that probably means more today than when it was written... Very prophetic??
My interpretation of this song is that it's about a man 'Punch' entering middle-age who is trapped in an loveless marraige to 'Judy' with an unsatisfying career to compound matters.
His early years with 'Judy' were the typical story of the passions of young love (described in the "whatever happened..." lines of the chorus) but his current situation (described in the verses) is no longer carefree and Judy is clearly just a nagging influence who is no longer any fun to be around.
He'd wants a divorce but for whatever reason cannot obtain one so he decides the only way to escape is to kill his wife by poisoning her.
(great pop song!)