Some Will Rake The Coals

(album: Rocking Horse Head - 1996)

A perfect stranger might could make you smile
Might could take your mind off your despair for half a while
But time moves quickly, strangers look like friends
Friends might fall in love and perfect strangers might pretend
And so it happens
Take a look around
Some will rake the coals
And some will burn a wedding gown

The sad romantics fail to grasp the world
Fail to recognize there ain't no perfect boy or girl
And so keep fumbling, feeling incomplete
Making love and breaking hearts and searching on the street
And so it happens
Take a look around
Some will rake the coals
And some will burn a wedding gown

And look at me
(Or maybe don't, now)

Hey, yeah, look at me
(Or maybe don't, now)
Look at me
(Or maybe don't, now)
Hey, yeah, look at me
(Or maybe don't, now)

And Charlie Chaplin had to realize
Eighteen year old Oona made a golden final prize
And Warren Beatty must have gotten scared
When Madonna made him fin'ly see he'd lost some hair
And so it happens
Take a look around
Some will rake the coals
And some will burn a wedding gown
Some will rake the coals
And some will burn a wedding gown