Saturday, July 07, 2018

Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes



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 sleepin' I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns, there was this letter I read

If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of 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 had 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 piña 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 piña coladas and gettin' caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean and the taste of champagne
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape
You're the lady I've looked for, come with me and escape

If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain
If you 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

Yes I like piña 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


WOW... THEY WERE FLAT OUT BOTH PLANNING ON CHEATING ON EACH OTHER... AND BOTH OF THEM JUST LAUGHED... I DONT THINK THATS HOW IT WOULD REALLY GO DOWN... BUT HOW DO YOU SING ABOUT AN EMPARRASSING SCREAMING ARGUMENT WITH TABLES OVERTURNED?

2 comments:

Aaron said...

Yes. This isn’t really a very romantic song. Yet. I appreciate it because it’s not at all your typical love song. And it also doesn’t make romance so serious. It’s like a song written by a Latin or a European. I approve. It also makes me nostalgic for the 70’s

Dan Tschirhart said...

Oh yeah, these two deserve each other

Now it'll come down to who cheated on who first, once the laughing stops

When I was a kid I thought the line was 'waking up at midnight' (making love)

But I was an incredibly naive child

I also don't think he really likes champagne, but rather used it for its easy rhyming capabilities

No one really enjoys champagne, do they?

It's just what you make toasts with

The song does bring me back to car rides with my cousins