Lyrics

Caroline ? Music and Lyrics by Jon Carter

Come on boy let?s sit you down
Get comfy in your chair
I guess it?s time I told you about the big bad world out there
Once upon a time you see, a little boy who looked like me
Walked into a room and saw an angel standing there

I put on my James Dean eyes, put on my favourite song
She looked at me without surprise and said ?why d?ya take so long?
She said she was a smalltime girl and how she?d like to change the world
I just told her that I had to be the one

Like Samson and Delilah, Like Bonny and her Clyde
We had to be together, I had to have her by my side
We jumped into the fire, into the great divide
And I thought it was forever just me and Caroline

She would keep me hypnotised with every word she?d say
Every night for fifteen months we?d both go out to play
Then one day over lemon pie I asked her what was on her mind
She looked down at the ground and said she had to get away

For seven nights I waited with red roses and red wine
I called her every hour ? just got a disconnected line
I?d lay there in the darkness Oh man it was a crime
?Cause Mama never taught me how to deal with Caroline

Caroline never came back into town
Last thing that I heard was that she?d finally settled down
She found herself a Mr Cool, got married, had a kid or two
But I remember when she turned me upside down

I should have seen the signal, I should have seen the sign
But Rock ?n? Roll had made me deaf and love had made me blind
I?d lay there gently whispering sweet nothings to the sky
Wondering what was going on inside my Caroline

She left me in a streetcar but it wasn?t called desire
She left for Sunset Avenue at five hundred miles an hour
She said she had to go there to see what she could find
I felt like I was gonna die without my Caroline