ARreddirtchic
2009-11-27 09:37:29 UTC
It's about a married woman who goes out of town to spend a weekend with her lover; she tells her husband she's going to see a sick friend. While she's there, her lover gives her a beautiful diamond ring, that she of course wants to wear every day, but doesn't know how to keep where she got it from her husband. On the plane going back home, after a wonderful romantic weekend, she came up with what she thought was a "perfect lie"--she'd pawn the ring. She goes to a pawn shop at the airport, pawns the ring, takes the pawn ticket home to her husband and tells him she found the ticket on the airport floor. She asks him to redeem it (just to see what it is). The husbands does redeem it, only to find that it was for a beautiful ring. He takes the ring and puts it in his pocket, then buys an old toaster that was on the shelf there. He takes the toaster home to his wife and tells her this was the item he got with her ticket. She of course can't admit to knowing the difference. At the end of the song, her husband's secretary (who turns out to be HIS lover) smiles and thanks him for the beautiful ring he gave her... Some of the lyrics are:
"There's no such thing as a perfect lie..."
"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive..."
And this is not the Gerard Kenny song called "The Other Woman, The Other Man." It has that last line, but the stories don't match up. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated!