The Purple Pas De Deux

Keith Hancock

If Bonnie Parker had not met Clyde, what would the story be then

If Doctor Jekyll had never found Hyde, but stayed two different men

For a flash in time, it's a love sublime, no reason for fear

Then the plot unwinds and soon they'll find

it's going to end in tears



That devil lurks inside us all, he'll make your mind a blur

Give him half a chance and he'll make you dance

The purple pas de deux



A lover takes a soothing hand on a peaceful sunny day

Then circumstance, on a course unplanned, steers them a different way

For if Ruth Ellis had another for a lover, they'd both be dancing still

One chance meeting in a moment fleeting, was enough to change their will



Two lost souls in a passion play, give their lives a stir

They'll be up and away when the music plays

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And when a chemical reaction hits two innocents at play

Then a fatal attraction is sure to win the day

When a shot in the dark turns a harmelss lark from joy to pain to strife

From a quick glad-eye to a banshee cry and you're fighting for your life



From frantic friends through romantic love to fanatical saboteur

It's a nightmare roller coaster ride, your mind is in a whirl

Up and down when you hear the sound

Take the floor with a frightening roar

Just me and you and a dance or two

The Purple Pas de Deux