Incidentally I caught her coming home from the party On a buzz and dressed to kill a king As it happened the corner bar was labeled Grand Army Bit my lip until they dropped the drinks They dropped the drinks Have I mentioned that night she was criminally stunning? Off the shoulder sleeves and eyes aflood Ordinarily I'd loosen things up with something funny But you know how you can tell your time is up I got a question for you You’d acknowledge it right? That you have been conspicuously Absent from my life Is it I crossed some kinda line? Said a thing you don't want to hear Please tell me, how are you so far away And, yet, so near