Pete Atkin - Apparition In Las Vegas lyrics

Atkin-James When the King of Rock and Roll sang in the desert He didn't seem to age like other men To Vegas came the ladies with pink rinses Agog to see the dreamboat sail again To Vegas came the shipwrecked and the broken Their long regrets, their searing midnight rages Their disappointment seldom left unspoken In marriages that turned to rows of cages He wrote and bound the book of which their early aspirations were the pages When the King of Rock and Roll sang in the desert With a ring of confidence around his smile He sparkled like the frosting on a drumkit He was supple as the serpent of the Nile To Vegas came the ladies with pink rinses With all their ills and all their soured karma With all their pills and all their tics and winces To feel again the liberating drama Of a shining silver buckskin suit against a solid purple cyclorama When the King of Rock and Roll sang in the desert He broke no hearts that hadn't burst before The ladies with pink rinses all were veterans It was they and never he that knew the score And knowing that they only loved him more To Vegas came the debris of an era For the promise that no longer could deceive them Their eyes grew misty as their sight grew clearer With a drum roll the past began to leave them And it all drew further from them as the spotlight caught the King and brought him nearer