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Ugly guys with beautiful girls |
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You always know what the story is |
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Beautiful girls with ugly guys |
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What do they take us for anyway? |
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Ugly guys, with beautiful girls |
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Ugly guys with beautiful girls |
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As they walk down the street arm in arm |
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I see them |
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And once again feel the need to ask myself the question |
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The question that has weighed heavily on me of late |
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How is it possible that a guy and a girl |
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So dissimilar in physical appearance, |
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There being such a disparity in how attractive each is, |
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Be nonetheless in what would appear to be a relationship? |
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It ain't done with smoke and mirrors |
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It ain't done with smoke and mirrors |
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It ain't done with smoke and mirrors |
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Ugly guys with beautiful girls |
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Ugly guys with beautiful girls |
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Ugly guys with beautiful girls |
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How do we explain this? |
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An attraction of opposites? |
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No, that theory has been refuted |
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By many experts in the fields of human psychology |
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A much greater attraction seems to come from one more similar to oneself |
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Personality perhaps? |
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Without intending to sound judgmental |
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That he doesn't look like |
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What was once called "live wire" or "the life of the party" |
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He appears rather expressionless. |
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His movements are stiff and even awkward |
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Perhaps he's a person of some intellect |
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An expert in science |
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The arts, political theory? |
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No, I think not. |
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See how well tailored his clothes are |
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How well cut his hair is |
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It ain't done with smoke and mirrors |
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It ain't done with smoke and mirrors |
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It ain't done with smoke and mirrors |
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Ugly guys with beautiful girls |
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Ugly guys with beautiful girls |
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Ugly guys with beautiful girls |
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I must confess to you, my listeners |
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That I have been a little less than honest |
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In pretending |
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I had no answers to my previous questions |
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You see, I lost someone very dear to me |
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Someone very beautiful |
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To someone much like him |
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Ah, you ask, surely there must have been other areas |
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Where you were deficient and he was not |
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No, I don't believe so |
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My shortcomings were of an economic nature |
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He was rich, |
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I was not |
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You see, I underestimated the appeal to her of things |
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Imported things on wheels |
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Large things with manicured lawns and |
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Olympic swimming pools |
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Things to wear around her neck that would |
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Glisten in the night light |
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Things! Still |
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I am not bitter |
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Rather, I am an observer |
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Who saw first hand how life may not be fair |
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Would things have turned out differently |
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Between me and her |
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Had I moved the corporate ladder quicker |
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Been born of more noble stock |
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Or done better on one of our journeys to |
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Las Vegas? |
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Perhaps. In fact, |
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I am certain of it. |
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Things would have turned out differently |
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Between me and her |
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I know this now |
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It ain't done with smoke and mirrors |
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Ugly guys with beautiful girls |
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You always know what the story is |
