Friday, March 31, 2006

Escape (the Piña Colada song)

This one goes out to all of you lovers who are in a rut:

I was tired of my lady
We'd been together too long
Like a worn-out recording
Of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleeping
I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns
There was this letter I read

"If you like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the Cape
Then I'm the love that you've looked for
Write to me and escape."

I didn't think about my lady
I know that sounds kind of mean
But me and my old lady
Have fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half bad

"Yes I like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food
I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon
And cut through all this red-tape
At a bar called O'Malley's
Where we'll plan our escape."

So I waited with high hopes
And she walked in the place
I knew her smile in an instant
I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady
And she said, "Oh it's you."
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew."

That you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape
You're the lady I've looked for
Come with me and escape

2 comments:

bdogg_mcgee said...

Reminds me of the movie "The Sweetest Thing."

If you haven't seen it, put it in your Netflix queue. But make sure to get the unrated version--it's funnier.

If they don't have it, I will mail it to you!

don't call me MA'AM said...

Great. Now THAT song will be running through my head all day... and I didn't even read all the lyrics. (unfortunately, I know them pretty much by heart, thanks to the radio stations here who played that song INCESSANTLY in the 80s)