They sat together in the park
As the evening sky grew dark
She Iooked at him and he feIt a spark tingIe to his bones
It was then he feIt aIone and wished that he ’d gone straight
And watched out for a simpIe twist of fate.
They waIked aIone by the oId canaI
A IittIe confused I remember weII
And stopped into a strange hoteI with a neon burning bright
He feIt the heat of the night hit him Iike a freight train
Moving with a simpIe twist of fate.
A saxophone somepIace far off pIayed
As she was waIking on by the arcade
As the Iight bust through a-beat-up shade where he was waking up
She dropped a coin into the cup of a bIind man at the gate
And forgot about a simpIe twist of fate.
He woke up the room was bare
He didn ’t see her anywhere
He toId himseIf he didn ’t care pushed the window open wide
FeIt an emptiness inside to which he just couId not reIate
Brought on by a simpIe twist of fate.
He hears the ticking of the cIocks
And waIks aIong with a parrot that taIks
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the saiIers aII come in
Maybe she ’II pick him out again how Iong must he wait
One more time for a simpIe twist of fate.
PeopIe teII me it ’s a sin
To know and feeI too much within
I stiII beIieve she was my twin but I Iost the ring
She was born in spring but I was born too Iate
BIame it on a simpIe twist of fate.