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A Real Slap in the Face Lyrics by Peter Blegvad

King Strut and Other Stories

1990

He lived with her for seven years
Told everyone how real his feeling were
Then one day he just up and disappears
How could he play such a trick on her?
It was a real slap in the face
He knew she was so afraid of scandal
He could count on her not to tell
That he hadn't only left her high and dry
And big with child
He'd taken all her jewelry as well
It was a real slap in the face
She listened to his lies as she lay in his embrace
He could only love a woman in the heat of the chase
It was a real slap in the face
They found her in pyjamas, wandering the streets
Lost like a rat in a maze
She gave birth in a cell, on a bunk with no sheets
To a daughter they told her she wasn't fit to raise
It was a real slap in the face
And hers is not an isolated case
When it's least expected, anytime, anyplace
Someone's bound to get a real slap in the face
Until you're spoken to, don't speak
Turn the other cheek
When you're slapped in the face and it hurts
And if you can't find what you seek
Remember the meek
Will inherit the earth
The swindler hit on someone else and
Soon they'd settled down
She was lonely rich and gullible, a fool
One morning she came out onto her patio and found
The honey-tongued deceiver at the bottom of her pool
It was a real slap in the face
This story doesn't have a happy ending
I've said all I'm gonna say
The characters are begging "Don't abandon us like this!
What did we ever do to you to be treated this way?
It's a real slap in the face."
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Peter Blegvad

Peter Blegvad

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