29th
Bob Schneider
Sun Li was a pilot in the nationally known
Amazing Ladies of the Outer Ozone.
She didn’t have no kids, she didn’t have no time,
she was a woman of her word, she was a fighter of crime.
She looked good in a hat, she had a natural way
with tools and old cars, she went to UCLA.
And everybody said she was as crazy as a loon,
when she was a girl she’d spend every afternoon
sitting in her back yard pretending to be
a fighter ace in the Japanese military.
She liked to make up her mind, she kept her feet in the air,
she wore her heart on her sleeve, ‘cause she’d found it there.
And it was all well and good until she met this young man,
a young pilot named Steve with a beautiful tan.
He spoke English and French and he swam like a swan,
he had a mouthful of teeth and more style than Cezanne.
He could talk to the bees, he could breathe in the air,
he wore his heart on his sleeve, ‘cause he’d found it there.
And they’d sit in the trees and they’d talk through the night,
while the blind moon swam in the pale starlight.
They talked and they crowed and they told what they knew,
it was better than beer, it was all strange and new.
There was grass all around, there was black up above,
it was more than hello, it was something like love.
And I don’t know why life, it seems to be
so hard for dreamers like you and me,
when love is
love is
love is everywhere.
