Escape (The Piña Colada Song)

I can't believe how many people think this song is "sweet".

It's about two horrible people who decide to cheat on each other because they're "bored". In the end they get exactly what they deserve -- each other's lying, cheating asses. How long till they get bored again?

Some people have no imagination. You keep pointing fingers, but you don't look at the big picture. This is a couple that has probably been married for YEARS. Do you honestly think that the wife didn't KNOW that her husband read the ads every night before bed? She set it up on PURPOSE. She knew just what to write to intrigue him enough an manipulate him to be there.

The Song is about a man who got tired of his Wife and then read an ad in the newspaper from a lady was looking for a man. Then, The guy took out a personal ad and responded to the lady who wrote the ad and they met up at a bar called O'Malleys. The lady who wrote the add went to the bar to meet the man. The man saw the lady who turned out to be his Wife. In the end, even though both of them had the intention to cheat, they rekindled the love they felt for one another and found out the love they where looking for was right in front of them the whole time. This song is actually a true story about the singer(Rupert Holmes) and his wife(Elizabeth Wood Dreifuss). They have been together ever since.

my pal, Gooch, says this song is about the importance of communication in a relationship.

i say it's about a dickhead couple who put out want-ads to cheat on each other and got caught.

A man and his wife are sick of each other, they both go behind each others backs, and look for love in a personal ad column, when they find the one they both like, it turns out that they are likely their spouses... great song about how you love the one you love!!

Not a great song, but romantically funny. It pokes fun at people's weaknesses.

I used to drive my friends nuts when we went out,because I always had to have a pina colada and sing the song...:)

No comments for this song???? Good song, and when you read the lyrics it's even better.

I think it's about forgiveness. They were both cheating on each other, and when they both found out they were cheating on each other, they could relate to each other, and just kind of laughed about it.

I'm not sure how old the people were who've commented previously, but no matter how long new people come along and get to know this song, part of its history will be that it was a phenomenon in 1979. Unlike many songs, it's a song with a story, and unlike almost all songs, the story has a twist. It was inescapable in 1979, like many pop songs have been, but it put a timeless topic on everyone's mind for a while, and that's something very few songs have done.

It's also a song that almost everyone knows by a line rather than its primary title, "Escape." Look at the items in the personal ad: It expresses contempt for two things that were trendy in 1979 (health food and yoga) and a liking for four things that are exciting but weren't part of this couple's typical day. It doesn't request a partner of any type or look besides an appreciation for excitement.

So both of the two people in this couple are tired of themselves and what they have become as much as they are tired of the other one. They both sought escape, and presumably found it. The message is that they were not stuck with an unappealing partner, but stuck in a more boring life than they desired. And they found out that they had a willing partner in excitement and presumably, they went on to enjoy that. And the parable is that many of us may be trapped in boring lives with a solution close at hand. Hopefully more than a few people put that lesson to good use in their own life. That's what put this song and its simple story into everyone's mind for a few weeks at the end of the Seventies.