No Happy Ending

from Choice Doyce: The Best of Doyce Whisanant by Doyce Whisanant & Macular Degenerates

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lyrics

No Happy Ending

She never wanted children
to come into a world like this one,
and she said it in her poetry and stories,
but few ever listened.
She left her first husband
to cohabitate with a cousin
who'd admired her from childhood,
and thus was the Web set a-buzzin'.

And things leveled out for a while,
though her guilt never vanished.
So she buried herself in her art
and the church and her Spanish.
'Til the day her new life ended
badly, perhaps even crassly,
when she found him at home
wearing hose and her
old Laura Ashley.

This is just who I am
I think we both knew it
It is what it is,
that's all there is to it
There's no one to blame,
my proclivity's clear.
This is life, and there's
no happy endings here.

And for weeks she confessed
all her rage for the cross-dressing bastard
to the kind and unjudgmental ear
of her transgendered pastor,
who confessed him/herself to abetting
an unhappy marriage,
whereupon he/she opened the robe
of his/her lonely carriage.

Though the flock was unruffled,
the peace was predictably riven.
And the pastor was held to account
for the oath he/she'd given.
Their community opened up itself
to the two, for all their sins,
with a markedly different reaction
from his/her twins.

It's just what I am
I think you both knew it
It is what it is,
that's all there is to it.
There's no one to blame,
my affections are clear.
This is love,
but there's no sappy endings here.

I gave her her freedom
along with my life in her city.
I gave her my friendship in spite
of all she'd done,
more's the pity.
I gave her my number to use
when her life would bottom out.
And that this would one day come to pass,
there was never a doubt.

Her life had continued to spiral
into raw desolation.
But on hearing me sing, she
had phoned up to offer
her congratulations.
And she nervously queried if I
still begrudged her the wrong.
With her silence to accompany me,
I sang her this song...

I'm who life has made me
I want you to know it
It is what it is,
that's all there is for it.
You've just you to blame,
consequences are clear.
This is Country,
and there ain't no happy endings here.

Yee-haw.