Your city was a resort town,
Favoured by emperors and kings
You ran the local theatre
Right at the centre of things
All of the gringos and gringas
Who came through the city to teach
Would show up there to audition,
That was the extent of your reach
Jean was blank and ethereal,
Tall with long blonde hair
She looked like the Lady Galadriel
You’d never seen a girl so fair
Kathy was her sidekick,
Shorter, dark and alive
Not with Jean’s kind of stillness
But with her own kind of turbocharged jive
You cast Jean as Charlotte Corday
In a production of Marat-Sade
She was the perfect comatose angel
But Kathy got cast as mad
They had you over for dinner one night
To their garden apartment downtown
Bougainvillea spread over the patio
And the bright tropic stars shining down
You talked and you talked deep into the night
Until Jean said “It’s time for bed”
You said you might as well go then
“Don’t go yet” Kathy said
She took you into her bedroom
She took off her clothes in the light
“Are you going to come to bed with me,
or are you going to just stand there all night?”
Things never turn out how you think they will
You were sure you were going to score Jean
But the girl with the heart that you opened
Was Kathy, and she was your queen
You bounced off each other all summer,
Bruising your hips in the night.
She was mad, passionate and crazy,
And you loved her with all of your might
You were dealt a great hand of cards there
In that sunny Mexican town
But you let it all get away from you
When you let your chica bonita down
You had a long distance girlfriend in Canada
You hadn’t seen in a year
She said she was coming to visit
News you didn’t want to hear
Kathy threw you out one day
A week before the girlfriend arrived
She said you were shameful and stupid
That without her your love might have thrived
You left Mexico three weeks later
Dumped the girlfriend when you got home
But whenever you think of Kathy and Jean
You wish you’d never left them alone
You were dealt a great hand of cards there
In that sunny Mexican town
But you let it all get away from you
when you let your chica bonita down