Do you like Pina Coladas?

Last night as I was driving into town by myself

In the silence of a darkened car

A song filled the space

It was a familiar song… but one which I hadn’t *listened* to before.

Last night I was in the space to hear it just as it was

I had chills all over

I had no idea what the story of the song was

so as I listened I was swept up into its waves

I felt sadness, anger, then the most beautiful hope for the couple in the song

It was the most heartfelt story

wrapped up in a Las Vegas meets Florida

It was like a perfect love story…

but filled with all the reality one needs

Yes, love can fall into a rutt

But mostly that is us forgetting ourselves

Forgetting the beauty of discovery

And passion

And wonder

Embracing our succulent bits…

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Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

By Rupert Holmes

I was tired of my lady, we’d been together too long.

Like a worn-out recording, of a favorite song.

So while she lay there sleeping, I read the paper in bed.

And in the personals column, there was this letter I read:

“If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.

If you’re not into yoga, if you have half-a-brain.

If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.

I’m the lady you’ve looked for, write to me, and escape.”

I didn’t think about my lady, I know that sounds kind of mean.

But me and my old lady, had fallen into the same old dull routine.

So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad.

And though I’m nobody’s poet, I thought it wasn’t half-bad.

“Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.

I’m not much into health food, I am into champagne.

I’ve got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape.

At a bar called O’Malley’s, where we’ll plan our escape.”

So I waited with high hopes, then she walked in the place.

I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face.

It was my own lovely lady, and she said, “Oh, it’s you.”

And we laughed for a moment, and I said, “I never knew”..

“That you liked Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.

And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.

If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.

You’re the love that I’ve looked for, come with me, and escape.”

“If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain.

And the feel of the ocean, and the taste of champagne.

If you like making love at midnight, in the dunes of the cape.

You’re the love that I’ve looked for, come with me, and escape.”