Mindless pop song about friends going out to get away for a night.

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My wife was taking about getting away for a weekend with the ladies, and I wrote these lyrics based on that idea.

V1:
Sandy pulls in the lakeland mini mall
then parks and takes a cell phone call
to ask her what is going down.

She says she needs to get away
from work and home and day to day
gotta get out of this town.

Jenny so much understands
has many of her own demands
is feeling bored with life anymore.

"Hey Sandy are you busy
We could go to Traverse City."
Sandy says "OK, we'll leave at 4:00"

Chorus:

Alright!
They're going out tonight
Some time to to have a little fun
To take their minds off what went wrong
In lives that feel stalled inside
the little world that they reside
going out to make it all all - right...
For tonight.

V2:
Sandy goes in to get her nails done
and tan a little in fake sun
so she will look the best she can

Walks past the china one buffet
the men inside all look her way
as she gets into her mini van.

She pretends not to notice all
the galkers that look on enthralled
but it makes her feel so alive .

To be noticed as the beauty who
her husband forgot that he knew
since their wedding day in ninety five...

Chorus

V3

4:05 Jenny's running late
Sandy opens the front gate
while Jenny puts her makeup on.

Hank says with a suspicious eye
as Jenny kisses him goodbye
"Don't do anything stupid hon."

In the car Jenny wonders if
she didn't make a propper wish
when standing at the wishing well.

Why'd her life end up like this
instead of her intended bliss
is she forever stuck in hell...

Chorus X2