They sat together in the park As the evening sky grew dark She looked at him He felt a spark tingle to his bones Twas when he felt alone And wished that he'd gone straight And watched out for a simple twist of fate They walked down by the old canal A little confused I remember well And then they stopped in a strange hotel With the neon burning bright He felt the heat of the night Hit him like a freight train And moving with a simple twist of fate Saxaphone some place nearby played She was walking on by at the arcade As a light burst through a bead of shade But as he was waking She dropprd a coin into a cup of a blind man That became and both got a bout Of a simple twist of fate He woke up and the room was bear He didn't see he anywhere He told himself he didn't care He pushed the window open wide He felt an emptyness inside too He could just not relate But by a simple twist of fate He hears the ticking of the clocks Small waves whisper to the rocks He hunts her down by the waterfront docks Where the sailors all come in Maybe she'll pick him out again How long must he wait one more time For a simple twist of fate People tell me it's a sin To know and feel too much within I still believe she was my twin But the bells refuse to ring He was born in the spring But I was born to late to blame It on a simple twist of fate