The final part of Pulp’s Inside Susan: A story in three songs trilogy, which begins with “Stacks” and “Inside Susan”, and appeared as the B-sides to “Razzmatazz”. A fourth song, “The Babysitter”, was later recorded.
In an interview, Cocker said:
[It] was inspired by a party I’d been to the weekend...
There's a picture by his first wife on the wall
Stripped floor-boards in the kitchen and the hall
A stain from last week's party on the stairs
No one knows who made it or how it ever got there
They were dancing with children round their legs
Talking business, books and records, art and sex
All things being considered you'd call it a success
You wore your black dress oh-oh oh-oh...
He's an architect and such a lovely guy
And he'll stay with you until the day you die
And he'll give you everything you could desire
Oh well almost everything, everything that he can buy
So you sometimes go out in the afternoon
Spend an hour with your lover in his bedroom
Hearing old women rolling trolleys down the road
Back to Lyndhurst Grove, Lyndhurst Grove oh
59, Lyndhurst Grove was written by Jarvis Cocker & Pulp.
59, Lyndhurst Grove was produced by Ed Buller & Pulp & Mike Timm & Simon Hinkler.