THE BEST KISS

Church chimes ringing just next store
I was looking for something more
Bells tolling for a broken heart
I must love just to fall apart
That afternoon everything was all right
World was burning up disease and fright
Sitting around lazy as a spoon
And I was waiting for you and the next full moon

The best kiss – I never want to miss
Came from your lying lips – In spite of this

But you know I was long past that
Keeping cool in my panama hat
Lost weekends in the distant sublime
Take my vacation – sunset lavender time
Just one trick and I do it out of habit
Back to the hotel fast as rabbits
I smell the perfume on her tender slim wrist
And I keep telling myself
It don’t get better than this

The best kiss – I never want to miss
Came from your lying lips – In spite of this

Everybody knows – where the conscience goes
Everybody shows – that’s where the evil grows

Kids upstairs asleep as a mouse
My own worries are too big for this house
Newspapers try to tell me what matters
I’m telling you they’re all as crazy as hatters
I remember the shine of her bottom lip
And the kind of smile that could launch a thousand ships
Sit around nursing my wet memory
Or I could walk upstairs
Where she’d be waiting for me

The best kiss – I never want to miss
Came from your lying lips – In spite of this