Cincinnati/Bone Marrow

When I think of those East End lights, muggy nights
Curtains drawn in the little room downstairs
Prima Donna Lord you really should have been there
Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair
And it’s one more beer and I don’t hear you anymore
We’ve all gone crazy lately
My friends out there rolling round the basement floor

Never realised the passing hours of evening showers
Slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
I’m strangled by your haunted social scene
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating Queen
It’s four o’clock in the morning
Damn it, listen to me good!
I’m sleeping with myself tonight
Saved in time, thank God my music’s still alive

And someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear
You almost had your hooks in me didn’t you dear
You nearly had me roped and tied
Altar bound, hypnotized
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You’re a butterfly
And butterflies are free to fly
Fly away, high away, bye bye

And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river
Clinging to your stocks and bonds
Paying your H.P. demands forever
Coming in the morning with a truck to take me home.
 (Someone saved my life tonight)
So save your strength and run the field you play alone.

* Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
You’re a butterfly.
And butterflies are free to fly
Fly away, high away, bye bye

 someone saved my life tonight.
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