Loudon Wainwright Synchronicity Lyrics

Synchronicity Lyrics

Little did I know, though I probably should have guessed
By the way you walked
and talked and spoke and smoked an dressed
You actually seemed to like me and
so naturally I presumed
You were after that thing, it’s the one thing, it’s
assumed

So I wined and dined you, hey, I love that kind of stuff
And we blabbed
about our backgrounds, how family life is rough
We spoke of what we dreamed of,
what we thought of, what we did
Midway through the second bottle I admitted I
had kids

But nothing seemed to throw you though I know you better now
At the
time my minor crime was figuring out how
To get you in my hotel room unclothed
and in my bed
And proceed with the unspeakable, it’s better left unsaid

We
went to see a friend of your and watch me on TV 
Sheer coincidence you said,
synchronicity
A full moon on a Friday night, the thirteenth of July
A man and
two women in a room and on the screen the guy

Your friend, she liked me on the
show, yeah she was snowed for sure
Her body language got obscene, her demeanor
less than pure
You started venting something wearing spleen upon your
sleeve
You got sort of nervous, kind of anxious, had to leave

You told me on
the freeway that you didn’t sleep with men
I put two and two together…and I
asked about your friend
It turns out she    and though she loved my show
She too
preferred the fairer sex—I absorbed the blow

It turns out that you did like
men but didn’t like their things
That hang down and all the hang-ups being
with them always brings
My brother is so practical; this is what he
said:
“You should have asked if it was cool to watch them both in bed�