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This one started while I was listening to "Simple Twist of Fate" and coming up with my own lyrics to the melody. Still a work in progress.
SOUTHERN BELLE
When the Minnesota boy met the southern belle At the ice cream shoppe, her small-town spell Wiped away any trace of his love sick hell. Her Las Vegas neon smile Lit up the boulevard for miles. Like Cleopatra bathing in the Nile, Her timeless beauty gushed from his wishing well.
With her Georgia peach eyes, she ignited a spark That engulfed his unrequited heart, And through the bones in his body the fire embarked. Her hair of golden grain Was enough to kindle the flame. It burnt all the crops of shame That were planted when a dust cloud turned his passion dark.
On a plantation, they danced in the rain. She washed away the cynical pain That flowed through his white flag veins. He had an angel to call his own Who melted his dreams of stone. He placed her on top of a throne That towered over peasant lovers who poisoned his brain.
She feared that once he flew back North Her life would veer off a different course. In a medieval castle from Camelot’s court Surrounded by a sparkling mote Was the dream marriage she always hoped. Then she chuckled when he joked That marriage is between two people who will soon get divorced.
In the middle of this mammoth field, He laid down his broken-heart shield And his brain allowed his heart to yield. He found a piece of string And made her a promise ring. He said “I’ll always be your king And our bond will forever be sealed.”
His key to heaven was at stake The night the pussycat danced with the snake. His spine shivered, his heart began to quake ‘Till it shot off the Richter scale. His skin turned a clammy shade of pale. Then his angel began to wail Vibrations that would make any man ache.
He woke up, tore off his sweat-soaked sheets. His eyes were pierced by a sunrise’s beam. Then like an explosion of a ruptured spleen, The sorrow of his loss Swallowed him like a rolling stone’s moss. Then he prayed the sign of a cross And hoped that this figment would pierce his brain again.
_________________ "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
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