Crossword Puzzle

Lyrics

[MAN] Ending love [WOMAN 2] I am sitting here doing the Sunday Times crossword puzzle Somehow the words won't come I am staring at squares but my eyes never focus And my mind's feeling strangely numb What's a five letter word meaning— Here's an example, Two Down "A Peruvian poison dart" Why, when Hecky and me Used to breeze through the puzzle, on Sundays The answers would leap in my— [WOMAN 2, spoken] "Hartebeest" That's a gnu G-N-U Boo-boop-y-doo [WOMAN 2] Where is Hecky now? Ha! He ran off with some floozy On a boat bound for warmer climes And he left me here doing the crossword puzzle In the Sunday— All the times we had fun here When more often than not He'd say, "Hon, what's a pustule?" And I'd say, "It's a blot" He'd say, "Afghani nomad" And I'd say, "It's a Kurd" I'd let him hold the pencil He could write in the word And when he was having trouble spelling "tryst" [WOMAN 2, spoken] T-R-Y-S-T [WOMAN 2] I showed him, how I showed him [WOMAN 2, spoken] Twenty-Three Across: "Lover, archaic" Amorist! A-M-O-R-I-S-T, blank! [WOMAN 2] I am sitting here doing the Sunday Times crossword puzzle Somehow the words won't come Can you figure it, me with my splendid vocabulary? Maybe I should play dumb What's a four letter word meaning— Why should it happen to us? There was never a moment's doubt All at once Hecky's jumping and screaming and yelling I tell you, the four letter words that came— [WOMAN 2, spoken] "Out, prefix", that means pro P-R-O Bo-dee-oh-do [WOMAN 2] Starts you feeling as if having brains or intelligence Was one of the world's worst crimes And the sentence is doing the crossword puzzle In the Sunday— All the times Hecky'd tell me "You shut up, this I'll get Seven blanks meaning airhole It's fistula, I bet" I'd say, "No" He'd say, "Don't tell me" [WOMAN 2, spoken] "It's tubulus" [WOMAN 2] "Tu-bu-li" I'd say, "Hecky, it's chimney" Hecky'd sit down and cry Perhaps that's why I'm left here on the shelf Perhaps he wanted to get the long ones by himself [WOMAN 2, spoken] Thirty-eight Across: ""She carries a torch" Statue of Liberty S-T-A-T-U-E-O-F-L-I-B-E-R T-Y Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why? [WOMAN 2] I am sitting here doing the Sunday Times crossword And I know why the words won't come 'Cause my mind is miles off on a boat to Bermuda With some ignorant lousy crumb What's a five letter word meaning— Phi Beta Kappa, that's me I'm as bright as a girl can be So bright someone else who could not tell a fig from a frigate Is off with my Hecky at— [WOMAN 2, spoken] "Seabird" That's an auk A-U-K Awk! [WOMAN 2] If I weren't so dumb I'd be spending this Sunday In a church hearing wedding chimes And I'd never remember there was a puzzle In the Sunday Times