Peppermint Taste

You had peppermint gum stuck between your teeth

You had white shoes and bare knees in 1983

I had you breast in my hand underneath the tree

But as the tree lost it's leaves you went up and left me for an awkward kind of boy

Who was far too tall and true to from it didn't last long but the peppermint taste didn't pass away for weeks

My school friends hearts they were bitter they were cruel

So I left when I was sixteen, didn't think of at all

Were you thinking that way too when you turned your back on school?

Did you work in a bank? did you marry with a banker?

Do you think of fate at all? Do you think of cruelty?

Do you think of me pushing you up against that tree?

And that peppermint taste didn't pass away for weeks

Well I may have touched your breast, but I never underneath

But we kissed to hard and we knocked each others teeth

Did you smile with relief when I gave up the ghost and didn't ring your house no more

Now its been twenty years, I bet you kiss real good

I bet you kiss your banker like a bankers wife should

And that peppermint taste doesn't pass away for weeks