It’s Mother’s Day 2007. And this time it’s personal.
Sooner or later it was bound to happen.
This is a bona fide Hot Mama in red shoes.
Out & about in her EZ-Go cart.
This Mama’s a peach. She’s got it.
“She walks, looks, and drives like an Ace, now.”
– Beach Boys, “Fun, Fun, Fun”
The red shoe rendezvous began with “Let’s go for a ride.”
Never considered if that was an invitation or a command.
Saw the red shoes, jumped aboard, grabbed ahold.
She’s a doozie, we clicked together like two magnets.
She floored it full-on, a stylish fireball.
Let it roll!
Mama if you gotta get, please take me with you when you go.
What is it about red shoes?
They’re referenced so often in song lyrics.
Kate Bush, Chris Rea, Loretta Lynn, David Bowie, and Elvis Costello.
“Let’s dance, put on your red shoes and dance the blues.
Let’s dance, to the song they’re playing on the radio.
Let’s sway, under the moonlight, this serious moonlight.”
– David Bowie, “Let’s Dance”
Serious moonlight?
Two hot-shots sway
under the moonlight, this serious moonlight.
Red shoes, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
Red shoes, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.”
Full lyrics from “My Aim is True” below:
– Elvis Costello, “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes”
Oh I used to be disgusted
and now I try to be amused.
But since their wings have got rusted,
you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
But when they told me ’bout their side of the bargain,
that’s when I knew that I could not refuse.
And I won’t get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
I was watching while you’re dancing away.
Our love got fractured in the echo and sway.
How come everybody wants to be your friend?
You know that it still hurts me just to say it.
Oh, I know that she’s disgusted (oh why’s that)
Cause she’s feeling so abused. (oh that’s too bad)
She gets tired of the lust, (oh I’m so sad)
but it’s so hard to refuse.
How can you say that I’m too old,
when the angels have stolen my red shoes.
Oh, I said “I’m so happy, I could die.”
She said “Drop dead,” then left with another guy.
That’s what you get if you go chasing after vengeance.
Ever since you got me punctured this has been my sentence.
Oh I used to be disgusted
and now I try to be amused.
But since their wings have got rusted,
you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
Red shoes, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
