He
In a shopping mall
Finally met the perfect girl

She is all that matters
The only one in all the world
Like a Barbie doll

Oh love is snakes and ladders
Snakes and ladders


She
Just to have and hold
Is the perfect air-brushed angel

Makes you hot just looking at her
Stapled into all his braincells
Like a centerfold

Oh love is snakes and ladders
Snakes and ladders


Get to the top and slide back down
Get to the bottom climb back up
Buy the townhouse

Call the preacher
Get to the bottom climb back up
Get to the top and slide back down

Get to the bottom climb back up
Set up credit for the lovely creature
The lovely creature


He
On a corporate climb

Set his sights on power for her
On a silver platter
He gave up happy hour for her

Perrier and lime
Oh love is snakes and ladders
Snakes and ladders

She
In a handsome world
Put her mind to social graces

All the privileged chatter
Setting pretty table places
For the girls in pearls

Oh love is snakes and ladders
Snakes and ladders


Get to the top and slide back down
Get to the bottom climb back up
Buy the carphone-

Call the broker
Get to the bottom climb back up
Get to the top and slide back down

Get to the bottom climb back up
Buy the wife a diamond choker
A diamond choker


True love-true love-true love
He's so nervous

New love-new love-new love
When he's with her
Oh-he's wasting away

True love-true love-true love
It's so curious
New love-new love-new love

Just to kiss her
To kiss her-to kiss her-to kiss her
To kiss her-to kiss her-to kiss her

To kiss her he has to shave

She

In the gilded mirrors
In the swing of fancy places
Where the black ties flatter

Started seeing other faces
Young-fogie-financiers
Oh love is snakes and ladders

Snakes and ladders

See
In the crimes of time
How the seasons steal away

How the rungs are shattered
First you're green then you're grey
Still the snakes unwind
Still playin' snakes and ladders
Snakes and ladders


Get to the top and slide back down
Get to the bottom climb back up
Sell the vineyard
Call the lawyer

Get to the bottom climb back up
Get to the top and slide back down
Get to the bottom climb back up
Gather garbage to destroy her
To destroy her


Ladders-ladders-ladders
The perfect girl
Ladders-ladders-ladders
The paper chase Love is snakes and ladders
Ladders-ladders-ladders

The social whirl
Ladders-ladders
The rat race
Barbie doll