Movie Date

Each time we try to have a movie date, dear/

Each time we try to watch some kind of flick/

It’s hardly half an hour that I wait dear/

before your tired head drops like a brick/

Does Bill Murray’s day repeat forever? /

Does Humphrey Bogart ever find the gold?/

Will Annie Hall and Woody stay together? /

I learn all these things myself while you’re out cold/

That head starts swinging with that same old motion/

And It’s hardly even half past 9 o’clock/

Soon you’re bobbing far away out on the ocean/

And I’m left lonely watching movies on the dock/

To feel my loved one’s head rest on my shoulder/

Can be a cozy feeling to be sure/

But only when we’re sharing feeling closer/

Not when you’ve slipped a million miles from shore/

Why must your head turn mighty as an anvil / When movie watching hour comes around/

it just becomes so heavy and substantial/

it lolls and rolls and then it crashes down/

That head starts swinging with that same old motion/

And It’s hardly even half past 9 o’clock/

Soon you’re bobbing far away out on the ocean/

And I’m left lonely watching movies on the dock/

It used to be we’d rarely get through movies/

Cuz loving passions swept away our patience

Epics or shorts, we still couldn’t get through these /

We’d miss the ends whatever their durations/

Till with more time spent at work and less for kisses/

I thought at least we’d now watch movies till the ends /

But sad to say that’s still the part she misses/

I guess we wouldn’t even get through ‘em just as friends /

We love to be together, that’s for certain/

There’s deep communication in our hearts /

But when each morning we discuss Hitchcock or Bergman/

We only talk about the way each movie starts/

Cuz That head starts swinging with that same old motion/

When It’s hardly even half past 9 o’clock/

Soon you’re bobbing far away out on the ocean/

And I’m left lonely watching movies on the dock.