Chorus
Real Love and the Whole Truth
(what's in your heart?) Compassion and honesty
Real Love and the Whole Truth
(how will you live?) Living with integrity

Two ladies shared a house
How about we call them Alice and Zoe?
They both had babies in the same week
Are you ready for this strange story?

Well, one night Alice in the middle of the night
rolled over on her baby son and he died
So Alice she decided to take the dead baby into Zoe's room
(She had a plan by the light of the moon)
Now Alice quietly took Zoe's son away
and she laid her dead baby down in his place
Took Zoe's baby back to her own bed with sheets of satin
went back to sleep like nothing happened

Next morning Zoe came to Alice
said, "You know as well as I do
That's my boy you have there
and if you lie to me, I'm just gonna have to sue you
I mean, I'm sorry, my friend, that your baby is gone
but give me back my son"

But Alice lied and said, "No, no, no way
I think you must be crazy
This one's mine and that one's yours
if you've got a problem with that,
we can just take it to King Solomon's court
(or if he's busy, Judge Judy's just down the street)

So they went to see King Solomon and tell him the whole story
Each woman said her peace with all of the gory details-
like it was heads or tails-
it was up to the King to get the scoop, ask for proof-
Who would he believe and how would he know
who was telling the truth?
(Guess he was pretty smart)

The King looked at the ladies, said, "Just one thing to do
Someone get me a sword-
we'll chop this perfectly good baby in two
You heard me right, then you can each have half'."
Both mamas gasped
Zoe screamed, "No! Whatever you do- no no!
Don't hurt the child because I love him so
That's a crazy idea of justice you got, King
Just give the baby to Alice, safe and sound
and we'll forget the whole thing"

Well then Alice had her chance to talk to the king
about his idea of the guillotine thing
She said, "Yeah, whatever"- see she didn't really care
course you know she'd been lying the whole time-
she didn't care what was fair

Well, King Solomon said, "Aha! ('cause he was mighty wise)
Hold that sword! The boy doesn't have to die
Give the baby to Zoe because it's clear to me
She's the real Mama, not Alice, you see

The real mother of the child wouldn't let no thing
happen to her baby by a nutty king
That's my judgment, my decision; that's my rule
and that's the story of real love and the whole truth

(c) 2005 This Here Music/Worldmaking.net (ASCAP)