Someone Saved My Life Tonight
When I think of those East End lights, muggy nightsThe curtains drawn in the little room downstairsPrima Donna lord you really should have been thereSitting like a princess perched in her electric chairAnd it's one more beer and I don't hear you anymoreWe've all gone crazy latelyMy friends out there rolling round the basement floor
And someone saved my life tonight sugar bearYou almost had your hooks in me didn't you dearYou nearly had me roped and tiedAltar-bound, hypnotizedSweet freedom whispered in my earYou're a butterflyAnd butterflies are free to flyFly away, high away, bye bye
I never realized the passing hours of evening showersA slip noose hanging in my darkest dreamsI'm strangled by your haunted social sceneJust a pawn out-played by a dominating queenIt's four o'clock in the morningDamn it listen to me goodI'm sleeping with myself tonightSaved in time, thank God my music's still alive
And someone saved my life tonight sugar bearYou almost had your hooks in me didn't you dearYou nearly had me roped and tiedAltar-bound, hypnotizedSweet freedom whispered in my earYou're a butterflyAnd butterflies are free to flyFly away, high away bye bye
And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the riverClinging to your stocks and bondsPaying your H.P. demands foreverThey're coming in the morning with a truck to take me homeSomeone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonightSomeone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonightSomeone saved my life tonightSo save your strength and run the field you play alone
And someone saved my life tonight sugar bearYou almost had your hooks in me didn't you dearYou nearly had me roped and tiedAltar-bound, hypnotizedSweet freedom whispered in my earYou're a butterflyAnd butterflies are free to flyFly away, high away bye bye