I Lived Roxanne

17: 1  The Police wrote a song called Roxanne,

About a boy in love with a “woman of the town,”

17: 2  There are times when life’s circumstances,

And the loneliness of isolation drag you down,

17: 3  When you’re lost in youth,

and beguiled by the exotic,

14: 4  When prone to temptation,

and the need for the erotic,

17: 5  But what happens when the other’s humanity is glimpsed,

17: 6  Holding hands in the silence of a pitch-dark room,

17: 7  Smoking cigarettes above the propane tanks,

by the light of the moon,

When relationship turns into obligation,

17: 8  When one believes the other, depends on them for salvation,

17: 9  But the deliverance from one situation,

Leads to guilt when you grow apart in your new station,

17: 10  The outcome of those days was never my plan,

Looking back,

I lived Roxanne,

JEV