The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan Comments

On the roof top where she climbed When all the laughter grew too loud And she bowed and curtsied to the man Who reached and offered her his hand And he led her down to the long white car That waited past the crowd....(The ambulance or medical vehicle)

Whas a hit song for Dr Hook in 75 and was covered by Marianne Faithful some years later. Faithful's strained gravel voice somehow added to the despair within the lyrics

A brilliant and empathic write of the harrowing sadness of a woman having a terrible breakdown

I think she was daydreaming while all alone in her bed.Thats why she just let the phone ring.

dreaming of thousand lovers through paris with warm wind little nursey rhymes she memorized