I Went To The Store One Day

We met in a parking lot

I was buying coffee and cigarettes

Firewood and bad wine long since gone

But I'm still drunk and hot

Wide awake, breathing hard

Now, in just one year's time

I've become jealous, rail-thin

Prone to paranoia when I'm stoned

If this isn't true love

Someone oughta put me in a home

Say, do you wanna get married

And put an end to our endless

Regressive tendency to scorn

Provincial concepts like your dowry

And your daddy's farm?

For love to find us of all people

I never thought it be so simple

Let's buy a plantation house

And let the yard grow wild

Until we don't need the signs that say, "Keep out"

I've got some money left

And it's cheaper in the South

I need someone I can trust

To protect me from our seven daughters

When my body says, "Enough!"

Don't let me die in a hospital

I'll save the big one

For the last time we make love

Insert here a sentiment re: our golden years

All 'cause I went to the store one day

"Seen you around, what's your name?"