ビルボードNo.1 1980' [2] エスケイプ/ルパート・ホームズ

原タイトルは、Escape(Pina Colada Song)。Pina Coladaとは、スペイン語で「裏ごししたパイナップル」という意味のカクテルだそうです。

この曲はルパート・ホームズ(Rupert Holmes)にとって唯一のNo.1ソング。79年末から80年初にかけて3週にわたって1位を獲得。

1位獲得週：　1979/12/22 - 12/29、1980/1/12（3週）
年間チャート：　11位（1980年）

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long
Like a worn out recording of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleepin' I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns, there was this letter I read

* If you like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga, if you have half a brain
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape
Then I'm the love that you've looked for, write to me and escape *

I didn't think about my lady, I know that sounds kind of mean
But me and my old lady had fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper, took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half bad

Yes, I like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon and cut through all this red tape
At a bar called O'Malley's where we'll plan our escape

So I waited with high hopes and she walked in the place
I knew her smile in an instant, I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady and she said, "Aw, it's you."
Then we laughed for a moment and I said, "I never knew."

That you like piña coladas and gettin' caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean and the taste of champagne
If you like making love at midnight in the dunes on the cape
You're the lady I've looked for, come with me and escape

repeat *-*

Yes I like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne

ルパート・ホルムズ(紙ジャケット仕様)/インディペンデントレーベル