The ballad of Lucy Jordan (1979)
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1. The morning sun
touched gently on the eyes of Lucy Jordan
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in a
white suburban bedroom, in a white suburban town.
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As she lay there 'neath the covers, dreaming of a thousand lovers,
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till
the world turned to orange, and the room went spinning round.
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At the age of thirty-seven she realized she'd never ride
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through Paris in a sports car, with
the warm wind in her hair.
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So she let the phone keep ringing, as she sat there softly singing,
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the nursery rhymes she'd memorize
in her daddy's easy chair.
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2. Her husband is off to work and the kids are off to school,
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and
there were, oh, so many ways, for her to spend a day.
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She could clean the house for
hours, or re-arrange the flowers,
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or
make it through the shady stream, screaming all the way.
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3. The evening sun touched gently on the eyes of Lucy Jordan,
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on
the roof top where she climbed, when all the laughter grew too loud.
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And she bowed and curtsied to the man who reached to her with his hands,
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and
led her down to a long white car that waited, past the crowd.
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At the age of thirty-seven she
knew that she'd found heaven,
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as
she rode along through Paris, with the warm wind in her hair....
(Marianne Faithful)