If Bonnie Parker had not met Clyde, what would the story be then If Doctor Jekyll had never found Hyde, but stayed two different men For a flash in time, it's a love sublime, no reason for fear Then the plot unwinds and soon they'll find it's going to end in tears That devil lurks inside us all, he'll make your mind a blur Give him half a chance and he'll make you dance The purple pas de deux A lover takes a soothing hand on a peaceful sunny day Then circumstance, on a course unplanned, steers them a different way For if Ruth Ellis had another for a lover, they'd both be dancing still One chance meeting in a moment fleeting, was enough to change their will Two lost souls in a passion play, give their lives a stir They'll be up and away when the music plays The purple pas de deux And when a chemical reaction hits two innocents at play Then a fatal attraction is sure to win the day When a shot in the dark turns a harmelss lark from joy to pain to strife From a quick glad-eye to a banshee cry and you're fighting for your life From frantic friends through romantic love to fanatical saboteur It's a nightmare roller coaster ride, your mind is in a whirl Up and down when you hear the sound Take the floor with a frightening roar Just me and you and a dance or two The Purple Pas de Deux