Simple Twist Of Fate (Live at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, September 2, 1989)

[Verse 1]

They sat together in the park

As the evening sky grew dark

She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones

That was then he felt alone, and wished that he'd gone straight

And watched out for that simple twist of fate

[Verse 2]

They walked along by the old canal

A little confused, I remember well

They checked into a cheap hotel with a neon burning bright

He felt the hеat of the night hit him like a freight train

Moving with that simplе twist of fate

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]

He woke up, the room was bare

He didn't see her anywhere

He told himself that he didn't care, through the window open wide

Felt an emptiness inside to which he just could not relate

Bringing on simple twist of fate

[Verse 4]

A saxophone somewhere far off played

As she walks along the arcade

The beamed to a beat-up shade back where he was waking up

She dropped a coin into the cup of a blind man at the gate

And forgot about that twist of fate

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 5]

Walks along a dock

Walks along with a parrot that talks

Heads down to the waterfront docks where the sailors all come in

Maybe she'll pick him out again, how long he must wait

One more time for that simple twist of fate

[Verse 6]

People tell me it's a sin

To know and feel too much within

All I know, she was my twin, I broke the ring

She was born in spring, but I was born too late

Blame it on that simple twist of fate

[Outro]

Blame it on that simple twist of fate

Oh, blame it on that simple twist of fate