Testo Soap Opera - Rupert Holmes
Testo della canzone Soap Opera (Rupert Holmes), tratta dall'album Songs That Sound Like Movies: The Complete Epic Recordings
There was a time when I saw myself
A floodlit figure on the stage
The Metropolitan Opera
The daily critic's latest rage
But my voice went through a change
About the same time as my skin
Now the opera octaves gone and what is left
Is getting awfully thin
There was a time when I saw myself
A superstar upon the stage
In someone's rock and roll opera
But then my throat began to age
And I wound up working nights
With afternoons when I'm awake
So I watch the daily dramas
As my life becomes a coffee break
Here's the story up to date
Shirley's found another mate
Though she'll wind up with a husband in the end
But her husband's got no life
He can't make it with his wife
Though his secretary's more than just his friend
It's a day-to-day routine and I watch the TV screen
Letting Bob and Shirley live my life for me
It's an opera made of soap using other people's hope
And tomorrow's show ain't soon enough for me
There was a time when I saw myself
A clean-cut cowboy on the screen
A spurs and saddle horse opera
But that's a long forgotten dream
So I watch Let's Make a Deal
And win the jackpot in my brain
Then it's time to watch the show
That's got my cerebellum half insane
Here's the story down to earth
Shirley's finally given birth
She's been carrying the baby for a year
Though it don't belong to Bob
Who's been fired from his job
As a surgeon 'cause he's got this sudden fear
He can't stand the sight of blood
Meanwhile Shirley's mad at Jud
Who's the father of the kid but he won't give
And tomorrow's show will say what they left out yesterday
And that gives me one good reason I should live
Here's the story in a shell
Bobby's mind is shot to hell
'Cause he can't recall his name or how he feels
He's a lost amnesiac
While his wife is in the back
Of a station wagon notching up her heels
Meanwhile Bob's assistant nurse
Has some poison in her purse
And she's gonna slip it into Shirley's soup
Good old Jud thought up the scheme
Good old Jud is Shirley's dream
But old Jud don't want to share her chicken coop
And the nurse would like to keep
Shirley's body six feet deep
In a grave adjacent to the Balding Sea
For she sees herself as wife
To poor Bob who's found a life
As a farmer since he lost his memory
So to give a resume
Bob is baling up the hay
While his wife is in the straw with Bill and Fred
But she don't feel great inside
It's that dose of cyanide
That the nurse and Jud will feed her 'til she's dead
There's the baby who just grew
Fifteen years in only two
And she has her eyes on Jud who is her dad
But of course she can't know that
She just knows Jud's where it's at
As her mother says it's good to be so bad
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Writer(s): Rupert Holmes
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