Some Will Rake The Coals - Steve Forbert

A perfect stranger might

Could make you smile

Might could take your mind

Off your despair for half a while

But time moves quickly

Strangers look like friends

Friends might fall in love and

Perfect strangers might pretend

And so it happens

Take a look around

Some will rake the coals

And some will burn a wedding gown

The sad romantics fail to grasp the world

Fail to recognize there ain't no perfect

Boy or girl

And so keep fumbling feelin' incomplete

Makin' love and breakin' hearts and

Searchin' on the street

And so it happens

Take a look around

Some will rake the coals

And some will burn a wedding gown

And look at me

(or maybe don't now)

Hey yeah look at me

(or maybe don't now)

Look at me

(or maybe don't now)

Hey yeah look at me

(or maybe don't now)

And Charlie Chaplin had to realize

Eighteen year old Oona

Made a golden final prize

And Warren Beatty must

Have gotten scared

When Madonna made him fin'ly

See he'd lost some hair

And so it happens

Take a look around

Some will rake the coals

And some will burn a wedding gown

Some will rake the coals

And some will burn a wedding gown