Mineral Wells

*** ***Intro: (alternate between |320003| and |302003| intro only) She was livin' in a cadillac Bedded down in the back seat On a back street of the Hollywood hills With a shoebox museum of memories Old photos and medical bills She'd been a great actress in two dozen movies Played Shakespeare on the great London stage Before the three husbands, six kids and bad breaks Of fifty-eight odd years of age Him they called fat boy wore grey overalls And he clocked in at four hundred pounds With a passion for food and film magazines He'd been a great critic downtown He'd seen all her movies, worshipped her face Heard her story and took her on in Though she bore no resemblance to the star he adored The film's over before real life begins ***Chorus: She told him of a fountain of youth In the hot Texas earth It'll heal and renew us It's somewhere west of Fort Worth And she met Errol Flynn there In the Crazy Water Hotel And they danced down the street In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells *** (alternate between |320003| and |302003|) So they boarded a greyhound in search of the fountain Fat boy and the aging film queen Through the Great Painted Desert and all across Texas Amarillo plain to Abilene They got off in Fort Worth for a fresh cup of coffee Caught the local to old Mineral Wells And it dropped them in front of that boarded up palace Called the Crazy Water Hotel Disillusioned they found a cheap room off the highway Drank vodka from a styrofoam cup There'd be no healing return to the past The fountain of youth had dried up So the critic and the film star held hands and drank vodka As the great Texas sun rose and fell And drunk but still dreaming they waltzed down the street In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells ***Repeat Chorus They danced down the street In the moonlight of old Mineral Wells