Pop song lyric of the day

In the song “Mason on the Boundary” a cricketer daydreams:

Mason’s gone to Zanzibar

Underneath his Panama

Out on the boundary.

 

Fading in the evening sun

Hopelessly Panglossian

Out on the boundary.

“Hopelessly Panglossian”. That’s a Voltaire reference, that is. You don’t get that with Oasis, or even Radiohead.

The song is from the delightful The Duckworth Lewis Method. It’s a sort of concept album about cricket, by the brilliant Neil Hannon from the Divine Comedy and another Irish chap, Thomas Walsh of Pugwash. Big fun.