String Of Pearls Lyrics

String Of Pearls lyrics

She swings the string of pearls on the corner
The street lights reflect the
light in the water
The string it snaps and the pearls go sailing
And they
splash and bounce and roll 'cross the wet street

As she bends to chase
the pearls a car swings 'round the corner
She darts from the eyes of the
panic-struck driver
Who's racing to the delivery room
'Cause in the back
seat his wife is busting out of her womb

And the sack breaks and out
come the Siamese Twins
Who grow up to become the first President
With two
heads
Are better than one

He puts his heads in his hands, says I got
to put my heads together
I can become the best President ever
And not
just President
Fend for yourself

Signs his name, takes the blame for
all of the names with no shame
In their beliefs
They adjourn and they
leave, and in walks a man
With a broom and a knife and blood on his
hands

And he sweeps everything under the rug
And goes home to his
kids and gives them a hug
But his wife was not there, she had just left a
letter
That said "you'd be much better off without me"

Now his wife
took the train to her ex-lover's funeral
Who died in the bathroom, hit his
head on a urinal
When they got together, the knowledge was carnal
And the
widow was at the funeral, and they had quite a catfight

And they fell
into the hole where the casket was resting
And the preacher just left in the
middle of the service
'Cause death was one thing, but women made him
nervous
And he ran to his car and he drove 'round the corner

Then
something in the street caught the light in his eye
He pulled over, reached
down, and picked up a pearl from the gutter
And he didn't know what to
think
And he brought it home and washed it in the sink

And he gave
the pearl to Sister Mary Teresa
Who could not accept it so she gave it to
Lisa,
A young prostitute who was missing a pearl
On the necklace that
broke late last night