Someone saved my life tonightelton johnwhen i think of those east end lightsmuggy 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 floorand 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 butterfly and butterflies are free to flyfly away, high away bye byei never realised the passing hoursof 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 aliveand i would have walked head on into the deep end 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