If I Ever Thought You'd Be Lonely

Hold a candle to a naked flame

Ask the atheist his Christian name

Parachuting from a burning plane

Finding someone else you can blame

If I ever thought you'd be lonely

If I ever thought you'd be there

If I ever fought the alimony

My painted pony, you'd be there

Eskimo heart, Bedouin throat

A butcher trussed up in a camel hair coat

A crowning in the castle, a drowning in the moat

Ocean dried, desert afloat

If I ever thought you'd be lonely

If I ever thought you'd be there

If I ever fought the alimony

My painted pony, you'd be there

If I ever thought you'd be lonely

If I ever thought you'd be there

If I ever fought the alimony

My one and only, you'd be there

One for the lady, one for the gent

Signatures in wet cement

And if you ever ask what I meant

Then I'd never know, then I'd never know