Changing Her Mind

You seem surprised to see me here
but you really shouldn’t be
You thought your eyes were crystal clear
but I know they couldn’t be

there’s always room for one more knight in shining armor
come to save a damsel always in distress

            but it’s gonna take money
            it’s gonna take time
            you’ll have to move mountains
            cause she don’t climb
            you’d have to be crazy,
            deaf, dumb and blind
            to think you could love her
            into changing her mind.

You told her she could keep the ring
as if she’d give it back
She coos and lifts her broken wing
and you come running back

with another rose, another heart-shaped box of chocolates
and another card that says, “I’ll always be your man”

            (chorus)

While we stand here clutching flowers
playing “she loves me, she loves you not”
she is crying on the shoulder
of the latest “would be Lancelot”

            and he’d better make money
            he’d better make time
            he’d better move mountains
            cause she don’t climb
            he’d have to be crazy,
            deaf dumb and blind
            to think he could love her
            into changing her mind

© 2004 by jeffrey wash