| The Motels – Only the Lonely Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| This song had just come out when I met my first wife Leslie in 1992. I was instantly attracted Leslie and it was my impression she was some how attracted to me. She was tall, dark, beautiful and crazy, I was tall and skinny, we were both dating other people at the time. She began singing the lyrics to this song to me where I first met her at work, Only the Lonely Can Play she would sing and then Kiss on My List by Hall and Oates. My girlfriend (who would eventually be my second wife) decided it was time to date other people and Leslie's moronic boyfriend decided the same, though I cannot to this day understand why he decided to leave her. One night shortly after we began dating she proposed to me on the top level of the parking garage at Logan International Airport in Boston overlooking the airport runways .... This strikingly gorgeous beautiful woman asked me, a nobody to marry her... I said yes, we ran of to Rhode Island days later and were married. We were married for one week when I left for Virginia to open a restaurant to start a future for us. One restaurant became two, then three. The last phone call I received from her she sang Only the Lonely for me, she had already been infected with Encephalitis from a mosquito bite by this time, it was the last time I would hear her voice. A few days later I called and her mother who was very upset over the elopement told me Leslie was in the hospital with brain swelling, undiagnosed she would die days later, she was 21. I agreed to an annulment to satisfy her mother's dismay, until now only three living persons know of this, myself, Leslie's mother and the Priest. In 2013, 21 years after Leslie's death I saw Martha Davis and the Motels perform Only the Lonely live, I was with my with my third wife who like my second wife I have yet to share my marriage and annulment from Leslie. When the first note of Only the Lonely rang I cried. | |
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