The Big Love Scene - Richard Thompson

This was supposed to be the big love scene

Where the music gets intense

Vaseline round the lens

You’re supposed to be too weak to resist me

Your heart’s supposed to flip

But you didn’t read the script

It should be like Hollywood heaven now

With 'happy ending' in letters written so large

But you don’t want my heart, you want my head

In a basket, like Madame Defarge

And fade to black

And fade to black

We were supposed to ride into the sunset

A few more kisses stole

As the end credits roll

And find that little cottage in the valley

And we’d hang up our spurs

For towels marked His and Hers

You were on me like flies on a birthday cake

How did I get to figure you so wrong?

If I touch you now I might get frostbite

We’ve gone from so warm to so long

This was supposed to be the big love scene

Now I’ll walk away with a shrug

As the studio pulls the plug

The Hallmark channel may call you

And they’ll be no looking back

You’ll hardly have to act

And fade to black

And fade to black