Ringing the Changes
\nby cricketjeff on February 17, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nShe told him that she loved him and she’d be his perfect wife
\nIf he went out to win the daily race
\nShe’d be at home to back him on the best days of his life
\nA well bred smile forever on her face
\nAnd all she ever wanted was the Moon and half the stars
\nThe Sun all day, the milky way at night
\nThe world’s most famous rock gods playing love songs on guitars
\nA life of relaxation and delight
\nHe thought she’d make him happy they would share romantic times
\nHow could he know the future was a field of unmown crimes?<\/p>\n
In whirlwind days of dating she enraptured all his friends
\nAnd smiled her way inside his parent’s hearts
\nHe wasn’t tall and handsome but a million makes amends
\nAnd so she learnt the oldest of the arts
\nAnd all she ever wanted was to see Montego Bay
\nAboard a yacht where she would be the queen
\nWith cold champagne and lobster to distract her days away
\nA life forever easy and serene
\nHe thought she’d make him happy, fill his days and nights with dreams
\nHe never guessed a future of frustrated silent screams<\/p>\n
Their wedding was expensive but a girl deserves the best
\nA coach and six, with flunkeys wearing silk
\nHer dress would mark a princess as more regal than the rest
\nIt’s by Lacroix or someone of his ilk
\nAnd all she ever wanted was to win her childish game
\nBe better than her schoolmates on their scale
\nTo own a string of horses and to wear a famous name
\nA life where she was never seen to fail
\nHe thought she really loved him as he loved her in his turn
\nHe’d have their years of marriage to reflect on life and learn<\/p>\n
In time he saw the tarnish on her artificial face
\nThe hollow words she offered as they passed
\nThe looks of blank indiff’rence that should put him in his place
\nShe’d won her man and thought it had to last
\nAnd all he’d ever wanted was a happy loving home
\nWith children and some pets to keep him sane
\nInstead he found a statue who believed he’d never roam
\nAnd maybe he would buckle from the strain
\nShe thought he didn’t matter that she got to make the rules
\nShe didn’t know that sometimes simple truths are seen by fools<\/p>\n
He met another lady who was plainer by a mile
\nWho made him tea and listened when he spoke
\nShe didn’t ask for money just to see him wear a smile
\nAnd only laughed when she could see the joke
\nShe didn’t dream of castles but of standing holding hands
\nOf seeing stars not locking them away
\nAnd he began to question, see what Cupid understands
\nThat life is not rehearsing for a play
\nHis ex got half his money and she kept her hollow life
\nAnd he got all he’d dreamed of and at last he had a wife<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nMills and Boon anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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