Life is an Accident Jacquie Manning, ©1998 Tatertunes Music, BMI

 

Cruisin’ down a back road, a foggy, drizzly afternoon

Her mind it was in Kansas,

Her head a’boppin’ to some tunes

The stop sign rose out of the mist,

The truck so close she could have kissed it

Six more inches and she would have been dead

But she wasn’t — she missed it instead

 

Life is an accident, you know it’s just a twist of fate

One tiny little cosmic twitch,

And it all goes a different way

If there is a master plan, nobody’s telling it to you

So you just might as well do what you do

What you do what you do

You just might as well do what you do

What you do what you do

 

She’s getting out of L.A.,

She’s at the airport with her bags

He’s coming down the hallway,

She sort of zigs, he zigs, they zag

They start to laugh like they were friends,

He said “We’ll have to dance again”

She said “I can’t, I’m off to Kalamazoo”

He said “Funny — that’s where I’m off to, too”

 

Such a lovely party, it really put her in the mood

He was out of protection —

“Oh well, what harm can one time do?”

Later she’s sick, maybe the flu,

But that stick was turning blue

Oh God! They hoped at least the baby’s a boy

But it wasn’t — but she was their life’s great joy

 

Jacquie:vocals, guitar, shakers

Rich: vocals, guitar, mandolin, udu

Doug Lofstrom: acoustic bass