Suddenly

"I know she's home", "Hello?" "Ah yeah, hello, can I speak to Darlise, please?" "She's not in right now" "Yeah, but that woman's never in I mean can you just tell her that Freddie called?", "Sure to" "And one more thing, if she doesn't want to talk to me Why doesn't she just tell me herself, I mean Why? s she got to get her roommate to do it?" "I'm sorry, Freddie, this is Darlise I didn't mean to leave you hanging on a string like I did" "Yeah, well, I mean, if you're seeing another " "No other man, Freddie? ? It's just that I've got my own home now My own life, my own job, I'm a working woman" "Yeah, just 'cause a man loses his job Doesn't mean you got to go dumping him on his ass" "I can't talk any longer, I gotta go" "All right, baby, I guess I'll talk to you later then Some point, have a nice life, do what you want, yeah? Suddenly a woman leaves me I've got no job, machine relieved me Suddenly I've lost my piece of pie I'm now in mourning and I wear all blue That's the color you wear when the dead one's you Suddenly I am living in a lie My woman's off with some other guy I can remember the first time I saw her Hanging out in one of those singles bars Women wear really fancy dress She was drinking a really expensive mixed drink And smoking one of those Marlboro 100's With the big fancy plastic filters on the end Made her look like she had class, least I thought so But then suddenly, bitch left me All of a sudden like something suddenly Suddenly I'm on my own I don't hear no rings on the telephone And all the rings that I've given her Have been returned I cling to clothes she used to wear Then I try them out and I style my hair Suddenly I could never be as fine as she I've got her eyes but I sure don't have her teeth And I can remember when we would take walks Around the public pool and the way she would look at me And the way she would do this whistle and how I would feel I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try and show you what it was like Oh man Suddenly I found myself drinking from the lowest shelf When all of a sudden I just could not believe my eyes There goes some guy walking down the street wearing my tie Suddenly I'm not gonna let another man take my woman Not even death can do us part because when I'm an angel I'm gonna come down from Heaven And I'm gonna buy her a brand new Cadillac I'm gonna buy her a brand new Cadillac Let me tell you why, let me tell everybody why Because in the? 50s it was pompadours And in the? 60s it was peace In the? 70s it was bell-bottoms, I don't know why but In the? 80s Ronald Reagan, BMWs, sushi Back home I used that for fertilizer But in the? 90s, it's love, love is the new fad I love you, good God almighty Suddenly I have found myself alive