She stood in the doorway, shaking from fever Needing a drink, that was clear I tried to look away but the way her body swayed To the music, made me order a beer She was a thin one, she ordered a gin rum I saw myself sinking again When her eye caught my eye Like two planes crashing in the sky I knew I'd stumbled into the wrong part of town She said her name was Delilah, no, I'm not joking I thought to myself, my name is mud That first waltz on the dance floor felt like a world war And I knew, right away, I was in love O Lord, how my heart, throwing boomerang darts
Opens itself to a**ault When her eye caught my eye We both cried out "banzai" I knew then I could never go home Isn't it funny, how one look - Can lead to years of pain and regret? I'm not saying it was all bad, or that she was born sad But if she can smile, I haven't seen her do it yet So we parted with pa**ion, you could say in the same fashion We met, on that hot drunken night When her eye caught my eye And two birds fell from the sky And landed on the wrong side of right