When I think of those East End lights

Muggy nights,

The curtains drawn in the little room downsairs.

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 friend's out there rolling,

Round the basement floor.



(Chorus)

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,

Alter-bound, hypnotized,

Sweet freedom whispered in my ear

You're a butterfly,

And butterflies are free to fly,

Fly away, high away bye bye.



I never realized the passing hours

Of evening showers,

A 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

D*mn it!

Listen to me good.

I'm sleeping with myself tonight

Saved in time, thank God my music is still alive.



Chorus



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.

They're coming in the morning

With a truck to take me home



Someone saved my life tonight

Someone saved my life tonight

Someone saved my life tonight

Someone saved my life tonight

Someone saved my life tonight

So save your strength

And run the field you play alone.



Chorus



Someone saved my life tonight

Someone saved my life tonight

Someone saved my life tonight

Someone saved my life tonight

Someone saved my life tonight