Limbo (music and lyrics by Hugh Emerson)
dedicated to M.W.H.

Way down-a Caribbean way's a kind of game they play:
Hold stick and go under it--it's like our love today
	I'll show you why, now:
There down-a Caribbean way's a funny thing to do:
Go low, bending over backwards, like I did for you, 
	And there they call it

Limbo, 
We're talking limbo,
It's both a game you play
And where you stay
When halfway in the middle of
A permanent or an ending love.
I say I am ready for us to last;
You make your mind up.  Please do it fast,
And be my ex, or be my wife,
So I can go on with my life.

You don't live there, you live here, so you have no excuse.
Stop playing these games with me; it's the worst kind of abuse!
	I'll call the hot line!
Up here in America we like it cold or hot;
We say, "when in water closet, go or get off the pot",
	But just don't stay in

Limbo, 
We're talking limbo,
It's both a game you play
And where you stay
When halfway in the middle of
A permanent or an ending love.
I say I am ready for us to last;
You make your mind up.  Please do it fast,
And be my ex, or be my wife,
So I can go on with my life.

If you think that it is best that our affair should end,
I hope that you don't expect I can still be your friend.
	Don't even ask me!
I still think that it is best that we two should be one,
And I hope that someday will the damage be undone
	From all the time in

Limbo, 
We're talking limbo,
It's both a game you play
And where you stay
When halfway in the middle of
A permanent or an ending love.
I say I am ready for us to last;
You make your mind up.  Please do it fast,
And be my ex, or be my wife,
So I can go on with my life.

You said you would be with me until the end of time;
That kind of a promise leaves no room to change your mind,
	But here we are in

Limbo, 
We're talking limbo,
It's both a game you play
And where you stay
When halfway in the middle of
A permanent or an ending love.
I say I am ready for us to last;
You make your mind up.  Please do it fast,
And be my ex, or be my wife,
So I can go on with my life.

If you fin'lly leave me, maybe it is just as well;
We won't be in Limbo, so feel free to go to...
	Someplace that isn't

Limbo, 
We're talking limbo,
It's both a game you play
And where you stay
When halfway in the middle of
A permanent or an ending love.
I say I am ready for us to last;
You make your mind up.  Please do it fast,
And be my ex, or be my wife,
Just let me go on with my life!

    Source: geocities.com/hsemerson