Kathy And Jean (lyrics)

Your city was a resort town,

Favoured by emperors and kings

You ran the local theatre

Right at the centre of things

All of the gringos and gringas

Who came through the city to teach

Would show up there to audition,

That was the extent of your reach

Jean was blank and ethereal,

Tall with long blonde hair

She looked like the Lady Galadriel

You’d never seen a girl so fair

Kathy was her sidekick,

Shorter, dark and alive

Not with Jean’s kind of stillness

But with her own kind of turbocharged jive

You cast Jean as Charlotte Corday

In a production of Marat-Sade

She was the perfect comatose angel

But Kathy got cast as mad

They had you over for dinner one night

To their garden apartment downtown

Bougainvillea spread over the patio

And the bright tropic stars shining down

You talked and you talked deep into the night

Until Jean said “It’s time for bed”

You said you might as well go then

“Don’t go yet” Kathy said

She took you into her bedroom

She took off her clothes in the light

“Are you going to come to bed with me,

or are you going to just stand there all night?”

Things never turn out how you think they will

You were sure you were going to score Jean

But the girl with the heart that you opened

Was Kathy, and she was your queen

You bounced off each other all summer,

Bruising your hips in the night.

She was mad, passionate and crazy,

And you loved her with all of your might

You were dealt a great hand of cards there

In that sunny Mexican town

But you let it all get away from you

When you let your chica bonita down

You had a long distance girlfriend in Canada

You hadn’t seen in a year

She said she was coming to visit

News you didn’t want to hear

Kathy threw you out one day

A week before the girlfriend arrived

She said you were shameful and stupid

That without her your love might have thrived

You left Mexico three weeks later

Dumped the girlfriend when you got home

But whenever you think of Kathy and Jean

You wish you’d never left them alone

You were dealt a great hand of cards there

In that sunny Mexican town

But you let it all get away from you

when you let your chica bonita down